kneel into
self
as thick as
quicksand
or time
as short as
life
this mind: fritz!
still soft
words
then,
dreams of me
on the young
streets
at dusk,
reaching
for night.
(c) Rob Goldstein 2014-2019
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The Jesus of Insurrection
The Jesus of insurrection
ascends from the flames
of Gehenna,
He walks on waves
in black and white
He leaves fingerprints
on my lips,
flames leap
to absolute green
He settles and waits.
Events condense as fog.
I wear my reality as tight
as skin; the slightest
break will kill
me.
RG 1986-2015-2018
There’s Nowhere to be When You’re Being Here Now
28 August 1999 (you got less than a month, right?)
Hey Dude,
Today be Jamie’s birth date day, and we’s havin’ a barbecue
in his honor if he ain’t drunk an’ if he shows up.
Jack be doing the cookin’, I’m on the eatin’ committee.
Maybe we can do it again when you get out, in your honor.
(Oops, I didn’t mean that your honor. No, I won’t reproach the bench.)
I had me one of them birth date days too, 4 days ago.
It was ho-hum, which they get after the first six years.
An I didn’t get no cake… an I didn’t get no party neither…But I turn 38 in 2001 so mark your calendar. (I bet that’s one thing you got good at.)
What did I get, you ask.
Lessee, mmmmm oh yeah! I got a couple of CD’s, an ooh! Ooh! That reminds me–you ain’t seen my stud-o-saurus yet.
He don’t walk softly but he do carry a big stick.
Where was I, oh yeah, the “loot.”
I got myself a couple of pairs of REAL GOOD sunglasses, a DVD, an a
headache.
You got me worried with talk of Bactrin and Pentantamine.
Is the prison doing this for prevention or did you come down with AIDS?
Did I mention Jake FINALLLLLLLLLY moved in, lock, stock, and porno?
I gave up but suu-prize, suu-prize, suu-prize.
Jake was in solitary for 8 months.
Eight months!
I hope they named a tile after him.
I guess I better work up an appetite by staring at food for a while.
Them pills my doc gives me don’t work so good.
I hate it when the present is the past and the future is now.
I guess what I mean is there ain’t no place to be when you’re being here now.
Got that?
Laters dude!
9c) Rob Goldstein 1992-2018
I found this on an old hard drive. The file is dated 1999
The Lambda: A Symbol of Liberation
Gay in its most far-reaching sense does not mean homosexual but sexually, intellectually and emotionally free.
Allan Young , 1972
The Lambda is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet and in its lower case form is the Greek letter L.
The early members of Gay Liberation chose the Lambda as our symbol.
L for Liberation.
In ‘More Man Than You’ll Ever Be’ Joseph P. Goodwin writes:
The lowercase Greek letter lambda carries several meanings. First of all, it represents scales, and thus balance. The Greeks considered balance to be the constant adjustment necessary to keep opposing forces from overcoming each other. The hook at the bottom of the right leg of the lambda represents the action required to reach and maintain a balance. To the Spartans, the lambda meant unity. They felt that society should never infringe on anyone’s individuality and freedom. The Romans adopted the letter to represent “the light of knowledge shed into the darkness of ignorance.”
Finally, in physics the symbol designates and energy change. Thus the lambda, with all its meanings, is an especially apt symbol for the gay liberation movement, which energetically seeks a balance in society and which strives through enlightenment to secure equal rights for homosexual people.
This is the birth of Gay Liberation as described by Allan Young in the 1972, Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation:
“The birthday of Gay Liberation is June 1969, when gay people fought back against a police raid at the Stonewall Inn. The Police invaded the bar, forcing people onto the street. But instead of running away, the gay people, led by transvestites locked the police inside the bar, set the place afire, and then threw coins and bottles when the police worked their way out. Participants in the incident along with others in the community got together to plan an ongoing political group for gay people. They chose the name, Gay Liberation Front.”
The Gay Liberation Front is based on the idea of liberating the human spirit and the human mind from all forms of racial and sexual oppression.
Gay in its most far-reaching sense, does not mean homosexual but sexually, intellectually and emotionally free.This includes a vision of equality as a basis for sexual relationships regardless of gender.
From the Gay Liberation Front: Manifesto:
“We do not intend to ask for anything. We intend to stand firm and assert our basic rights. If this involves violence, it will not be we who initiate this, but those who attempt to stand in our way to freedom.”
I used to say it like this: “We don’t want your tolerance. We just want you out of our way.”
Rob Goldstein 2016-2018
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