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| <TITLE>Treedom, by David Emerson Smith</TITLE> | |
| <META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="from Poems of Love and Liberation"> | |
| <META NAME="Author"=David Emerson Smith> | |
| <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="NAMBLA, NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION, MAN/BOY LOVE, BOYS, POEMS OF LOVE AND LIBERATION, GAY YOUTH, DAVID EMERSON SMITH"> | |
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| TREEDOM/</H3> | |
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| <P><B> A Boy robbed of childhood<BR> | |
| by the white racist cotton hoods of adults<BR> | |
| the ones they shroud their senseless bodies with<BR> | |
| the ones they hide their grey swollen faces in</B></P> | |
| <P><B> A Boy dresses up in lace highheels<BR> | |
| The ripe red lipstick of bursting pricks<BR> | |
| the one he plays with through his pocket<BR> | |
| the one he opens up his fly to find<BR> | |
| hidden there/ in his underwear</B><BR> | |
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| <P><B> TREEDOM/ one short step from freedom<BR> | |
| A Boy comes of age in rural shabbiness<BR> | |
| the pink rose of youth blossoms/ Dogwood<BR> | |
| the tree he climbs in search of privacy<BR> | |
| branches to hide in<BR> | |
| to spy the addled ones<BR> | |
| the tree he climbs to steal love<BR> | |
| from his slender sapling torso<BR> | |
| the oak he grows into<BR> | |
| in order to escape the world/<BR> | |
| His pappy sneers and says,<BR> | |
| "Boy you'll never leave this holler"<BR> | |
| But he still goes to Nashville<BR> | |
| aching for lavender liberation<BR> | |
| the violet freedom of a changing child<BR> | |
| there he grows robust in his new awareness<BR> | |
| and shares it hesitantly with strangers/<BR> | |
| he gives in to his urgent need<BR> | |
| and colors it with cum<BR> | |
| saliva/ ocean foam<BR> | |
| and clouds</B><BR> | |
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| <P><B> ~ David Emerson Smith</B><BR> | |
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| <P>from <I>NAMBLA JOURNAL SEVEN</I> (1986). </P> | |
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