Richard Gere on Broadway

LGBT gay poetry Sexually risky, coming out material

“Richard Gere on Broadway”

By Robben Wainer

 

Together we fantasized about Richard Gere on Broadway,

In my obsessive compulsive nature

I wonder if being any other way

Would mean that I am not Jewish

I think of my own persecution

And my own prohibitions in this rite of passage,

There must be something said to divine intervention,

Like when I learned to masturbate like a female.

I somehow get caught in my faith.

Between AIDS/ HIV and men who are negative who don’t need a condom.

After all who were the saints and sinners

Were we all just the grown men asking for a lay,

Or are they all of us

In a never under ending celebration

Of all that we have left to uncover,

In this fine line we draw between the sheets.

Author's Note

LGBT gay poetry, sexually risky material