Status Updates From Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir

“Up to this point I’ve spent nearly all my life looking over my shoulder, afraid to be noticed while dying to do fun things that involve being seen.”

“Despite being a homo, I came late to Destiny’s Child, which may tell you something of my musical tastes and reveals, possibly, my once snobby aversion for anything considered too mainstream.”

😂😂

“‘95 could be my year to take a cue from Alanis, grant myself a righteous anger at people who consider my queerness untouchable unknowable, despite all my writing beckoning strangers to know me better.”

“I know nothing of queerness except rumour, name-calling, AIDS on the news, everyone with an opinion to share about the fictions we don’t yet know we aren’t.”

So far…touches perfectly on that late 80s/90s feel. Poems that really cut like a jagged knife about growing up, moreover the scar it leaves.