Anniversary Poem
May 5, 2007 3:30 a.m.
Through fog his eyes clear queer mayhem.
The lust in his eyes unseeing.
Love thrust through my very being.
He is more to love than you think.
Allow me to buy another drink.
Allow me to sell yesterday's news.
A night of booze, blues, Bard and Muse.
Unbuckled hips slowly piston.
The night birds singing holy Whitman.
Breaking, taking, heaving, giving.
Lonely leaving, loving living.
JAMES SCHWARTZ is a poet and slam performer striving for the simplicity of Cavafy mixed with modern gay wordplay and elements; Schwartz’s poetry/slam material dialogues of GLBTQ issues and affirmations of gay (night) life and love. Schwartz is the author of several poetry chapbooks including The Scarlet Band and Other Poems (2005). Schwartz’s poetry has been published by Poetry Life and Times, The Rainbow Gazzette, OutSide the Lines (Australia), The Poet's Haven, Babel: The multilingual, multicultural online journal and community of arts and ideas, The New Verse News, Patricia Jebbah Wesley's International Poetry Blog for Peace, Perry Brass.com, Queer Magazine Online, LGBT Asylum News, and Love’s Chance Magazine (Summer 2010 issue). As a slam performer Schwartz has read at The Meta Cafe, This is Fire! The Zoo Bar and the St. Joseph County MI. Democrats’ Inauguration Day party of President Barack Obama.
