Getting pumped up to get laid | |
Building muscle to pave the way | |
Pounds shed, muscles flaunted | |
Wanting so desperately to be wanted | |
You hate the thought of a shirt | |
Worked too hard to cover up your work | |
Those hard shapes define a lifestyle | |
Muscles cover weakness...for a while | |
But can a sexy new bod fill the hole | |
Or will something else make life meaningful | |
You're a poster boy of the physically fine | |
Until, one day, you see the first sign | |
And to gym workouts you add another regimen | |
Popping pills, as lesions threaten the skin | |
What went wrong, you ask | |
What mistake | |
What sin? |
Monday, February 21, 2005
POEM: Getting Pumped Up to Get Laid
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7 comments:
I like it... believe the end could use somethin else, add a lil somethin, but I still think you did a good job.
Too true.
It feels like it needs an ending
damn! get someone all hot and bothered just to get a disapointment... wait is this about sex or steroids?
You become a poster boy of the physically fine
Pills are popped, lesions threaten the skin.
Oh crap this is really bad!
"Oh crap this is really bad!"
I wasn't going to say it...like that anyway.
But I'm afraid I must agree.
I'm speechless again. This is great. Very insightful and relevant.
t's sort of bad.. but good because how many gay body-buffing poems do you see these days? New to me! And... the "lesions" mean only two possible things: steroid zits (but noone takes so many oral steriods these days, huh) OR more likely, the finish is about HIV and losing the T cell count.. and skin problems are an early manifestation for many getting sick in full-blown immune deficiency. I used to gym-pump to get laid. I did lots of bad things. I never got sick. So I am here to affirm this poet's reality: this is life for many many young gay men.. it's the culture and they are dying for their pumps.. so,THIS closing angle of the poem saves it from insignificance. Read it and weep..Most all the guys I knew twenty years ago are long since dead. I never even got the virus, but -should have-. I say this so show you regulars just how enslaved gay men are to their drives and cultural apocalyptic. It's not "sinful". Only fatal.
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