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@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Friday Night Observations, Like Starlight On Smalltown Earth [XLIX]
Friday night, after the game, two young men "get
"naked": the slender, agile quarterback and
his best friend (since kindergarten!) a half-back.
The sweetseed they exchange tonight (and, indeed,
each night they make Love---
despite the prejudice of pruderies that
surround them) sustains, nourishes and expands
the Love that causes their souls to cohere to
each other. The team knows, but not the coaches
or anyone else
in the athletic department who would want
to expel them from participation and
strip them of their well-earned varsity letters.
They will attend Prom together (tuxedos,
mesh sleeveless tees and
semi-sheer socks without shoes) intending to
dance every dance together, and no one
in the School Administration (local or
County Boards) can act against them who have dared
to love each other.
Still together as we speak, an Aerospace
Engineer and a Professor (full tenure)---
American Literature---who wrote his
dissertation on the Homosexual
Poems of Walt Whitman.
J*Called
