[stylist] LGBTQ REVISITED

Tue Mar 25 04:49:40 UTC 2014

HI Jackie,

This is clever and very sweet.  Thank you for the engaging read.

--Bill

On 3/24/2014 7:23 PM, Bridgit Pollpeter wrote:
> Jackie,
>
> The movie is Tu Wong Fu: To Julie Newmar, with Love, starring Patrick
> Swayze, and yes, it was a funny but heart-felt movie. It was made in the
> mid-90's.
>
> Bridgit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jackie
> Williams
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 7:42 PM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [stylist] LGBTQ REVISITED
>
>
> I AM STILL REVISITING ALL THE E-MAILS I MISSED. Well, I enclosed my few
> about spiders. I have had a hard time remembering the meanings of all
> these letters, but I have one or two poems that might nibble on the
> edges.  I have known many gay men, some fellow teachers, two of whom
> adopted. Quite amazing for Arizona. Better parents I never knew. I also
> found that my Great Aunt Dora, a heroine of mine throughout my life,
> left a letter when she died asking that her headstone be placed next to
> another woman's headstone, and a tender letter was enclosed. A very
> attractive woman, she refused offers of
> marriage, and became the Librarian at Upper Iowa University. When    she
> retired after fifty years, an old beau asked her again, and she again
> refused. Years after this mystery, an answer. Then, some years ago, I
> saw a movie with a Chinese title about a drag queen. It starred the
> dancer who also starred in ghost, and it was hilarious.  I also visited
> a friend in San Francisco, and went first to a place to eat and see the
> belly dancers. Then we went next door and saw endless men in drag. I had
> to write about a man with a mother that could be me, and his wife and
> child who could be my daughter-in-law. Other than my imagination, I
> don't have a lot of knowledge, except my scientific-based beliefs, that
> is most developments take place in the womb, and sometimes are highly
> influenced also by environments that cannot help but magnify or turn the
> tide to an already genetic pattern. Now that I think of it, I have three
> poems that touch in some way on one or another of these "letters."
>                I suggest that you read this first line by line, and spell
> out the few words that are not phonetic, then read it a second time with
> insert, down arrow. It is long, 73 lines. I  submitted it to Georgia for
> several years, since I understood it to be the drag queen capitol of the
> U.S., but it must have offended someone to claim it as part of their
> history. It is a marathon of rhyming, and if you do not hear it, the
> format has not remained true. Category 4 Jacqueline Williams
> Expressing Beliefs In All Ways                                     1431
> W.
> 7th Place
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> Mesa, AZ 85201
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> 480-834-1782
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> The Evolution of a Drag Queen
>   
> "My Mother, nothing comes to mind
> to extricate me from my bind."
> Athletic honors, throwing shot
> and javelin were surely not
> the skills that now will make up for
> a youth I wasted. I foreswore
> the effort facing learning times,
> realities and saving dimes.
> All those awards led me astray
> until too late, though I must say
> the medals for my breaststroke swims
> left me big "pecs" and long strong limbs.
> I had a decent resume
> before I lost my job. Foul play
> robbed goals set by my love and me
> for newborn son, cast them asea.
>   
> "My son, I'll think about it soon."
> So often, Mom, I've heard this tune.
> You'll wear your gowns and gaudy rings
> to hifalutin social things.
> Oh, wait, my quite majestic mom,
> so tall, so buxom, such aplomb.
> Ideas brew-a rushing tide.
> I'll find a conquest for my bride.
>   
> You gone, your spikes upon my feet,
> I walk and fall and still repeat
> a practice that becomes my code,
> a perfect imagery, the mode.
> I've got the walk, now what to do
> to make the perfect witch's brew
> that causes me to light the flame?
> Please bring me soon to newborn fame.
>   
> My wife's peach-pink scant underpants
> inspire an undulating dance.
> While she, adored, earns great big bucks,
> I hold the bottle my son sucks.
> As "Mister Mom," I take him here
> and there and now it's everywhere.
> The beauty parlor-such a place!
> He always grins his funny face.
> We hang out as a winsome pair.
> The ladies think us both quite fair.
> As one beautician holds him tight,
> another makes my eyes shine bright.
> Eye shadow, glitter, wigs all glow.
> My heart beats fast. My wife will know
> the depth of love I feel for her.
> Oh, dear, my makeup must not blur.
> I slowly roll my thigh-highs up-
> the jet-black net-oh, quite corrupt.
>   
> My mom and wife will meet for dinner.
> I pray that they will see a winner.
> Mother, son and dearest one
> arrive all laughing, full of fun-
> awash in new-felt wonderments
> at rainbow fans on fundaments.
> They do not know I'm here, you see,
> cast eyes at entrance doors. Oh me.
>   
> The drum roll comes and I sashay
> the runway, not one hair astray.
> Bestowing smiles on all alike-
> arched eyebrows, winks, I pass my tyke
> with arms outstretched and then he knows
> his "Mommy" right down to my toes.
>   
> And now when all is said and done,
> with kudos to my lovely one,
> she must compete with all those droves
> who bring me gifts and treasure troves
> of drag queens-past and present tense.
> I hope that I'll maintain the sense
> to build a future-one to see-
> that's free of fear and bigotry.
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