WHO AM I? (THE SHORT VERSION)
(for the folks the the Motherboards)
27 years old, I live
in Syracuse NY
queer, bi, on SSD
and SSI, dysthymic,
attention-deficit-disordered
(according to my shrink)
a poet, an art junkie,
a theatre fan,
I've been banned
by PC lesbian hosts of
closed-minded poetry reading
and haunted open mics
during the years of the Iraq war,
been called a racist,
and a faggot,
born March 19 1979
highly intelligent
highly inquistive
raised in affluence
mired in the quicksand
of poverty,
currently unemployed,
fortified by music,
film, poetry,
and pornography,
I haunt the library,
love to go to bookstores
and record stores
and against my better
judgement, I go to the mall
a liberal, a socalist,
a useless democrat
and have read Marx thank you
blunt, honest
urban, urbane
witty, clever
sometimes not modest
I have a lust for life
that just won't die
I love and hate
both of my parents
father's a funeral director
mother's a teacher
I have two sisters
(one short of a Checkov play)
was angry enough
to post a response
to the beating of Kevin Aviance
and found the Mothersboards
(am I accepted into the sisterhood?)
I am gender-free
polymorhpous perverse
free if only in my own mind
I am trying to love life
and I am here to stay
until I die
and will be always
here on earth
to let you have it!
Andrea Biscotti