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@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; An Old Man Remembered
Age, illness, and destitute poverty
marred his fragile beauty most insidiously.
Remember the erotic photography
that depicted his nineteen year old adolescence,
naked, or almost naked: peak efflorescence,
defiant of prejudiced prudery
to deliver to other young men the fantasy
of (then elusive) homogenic intimacy.
His beauty will be restored in Love's eternity:
this confident hope I declare in poetry.
J-Called
