PIAGETIAN GAY DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES

I Pre operational 

Hi, sissy boy, hi, 

fly and fly

peacock feathers 

all for you.

Play with clouds 

fly sissy boy, fly.

Hello, Boy Scout, 

let’s be friends

chief leader of the pack

you had them

by their balls

they had you 

by your ass. 

Let’s be friends. 

                 

II Operational

No feelings are allowed on graduation day

men don’t cry as they never learned to be gay 

basal readers were very straight.

Ninety six and Broadway, down the IRT line

toilets ought we see, men toilets

a few dollars each.

III Formal 

Last night you kissed me 

hugged me

but never found out 

asleep 

we both were 

someplace else

on somebody’s tit\.

Today the pain is back

dressed-up in reverse

brought-in decades ago.

Let's not be friends
but organize. 

(New York City, 1975)