By Button Poetry
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Adam Falkner, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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Cousin Josh was the first gay man I knew who wasn’t on TV.
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And really I only heard about him whenever my uncle felt like bringing it up which is mostly once he got sick
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and even then
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it was only the movie costumes and the award shows and the beach houses and how much I looked like him which bugged me because
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everyone knew he was gay and I wondered if that’s what he meant by looked like him.
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But everyone also knew he was HIV positive
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and got beat up in Central Park and left home as a teenager to make his own life because my uncle told him to do
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that and I wondered if that’s what he meant, too
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I was old enough to drink the first time
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I finally met him on West 56th in Manhattan and still having sex with women and I remember feeling bad for
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expecting to meet someone sick because he was so handsome and so kind and I was so nervous.
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I remember that I couldn’t even look him in the eyes
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