Category: poetry

(an anniversary song for bruce, mid-80s)

this month bruce and i celebrate 24 years together … so i have to post one of the many poems i’ve written for him … i think this is from the mid-80’s, but it feels even more relevant today …

june is gay pride month so i thought i’d post a lyric i wrote not long after coming out in the mid-70s … at the time i was writing lyrics for and managing a duo called jade & sarsaparilla comprised of janet hood and linda langford … trust me on this — they truly were the greatest group you never heard … they were in a relationship at the time and we wrote into that … it was also when the watergate scandal was unfolding … so i combined all those influences into a country-western song which was recorded on jade & sarsaparilla’s album (soon to be re-released — watch this space for details)

i think i wrote this in 1985 … the date is fuzzy but i stand by the feelings it expresses

this was written in the mid-eighties as aids mushroomed into an epidemic … in this season of hope and renewal, i dedicate it to all those soldiers and civilians living in fear that their lives will be needlessly taken from them