Ronald Baytan > Quotes

“I come home,
To die of hunger.
But my death is brief
Because the body
Desires
Its own resurrection.”
― Ronald Baytan, The Queen Sings the Blues: Poems

“I lie on my back
And you open me up, because
Positions change but not the axiom:
One cannot be top
If one cannot be bottom.”
― Ronald Baytan, The Queen Sings the Blues: Poems

“Warm water travels
From my hair down to my toes
Like your fingers caressing
Me. Now I know how lonely
Water must be: To posses
Matter for a moment only to flow
Slow to its death in the humid
Air.”
― Ronald Baytan, The Queen Sings the Blues: Poems

“And so the liked of us
Have learned:
Dark cannot right
Our cursed bodies.”
― Ronald Baytan, The Queen Sings the Blues: Poems

“To the question, How many men
Have you slept with? I cannot tell

You. But I mean to ask, This week
This month this year this garden?

How could I count when I have loved
Them only in the absence of light?”
― Ronald Baytan, The Queen Sings the Blues: Poems

“Hands in my pocket, I leave
The bar, and ask: To whose arms
Will he come home tonight?
In my room, the warm
Lips of beer
Await my constant return.”
― Ronald Baytan, The Queen Sings the Blues: Poems