By Button Poetry
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Adam Falkner, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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when I say that he is a good-looking man
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I mean that entirely objectively as in
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anyone who thinks otherwise might be so
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homophobic that they themselves are gay
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and I am not gay therefore I appreciate
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how others might be drawn to certain
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features that he holds when I say that I
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find him handsome again I would like to
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clarify that statement I think of him as
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beautiful in that girls love him sort of
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way how if I were a girl I might wait
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outside his dressing room too I might
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write him letters too however I am not
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so I won’t but I get it
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and even this said aloud in this very
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room a flag javelin to deeper into the
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Scheuer certainty of my own
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budweiser so straight that is that I
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could say I think about his stubble
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against my neck without your thinking
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this poem is about to get gay as hell
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the glorious scrape and push of dueling
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jaw lines how I spend my to train
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commute most mornings wondering how our
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college soccer hips might feel cutting
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into one another in a corner on the hood
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of a car in some hipster neighborhood I
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do not live in where no one knows me
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outside this splintered park bench these
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rolled up jeans and a tired black tee
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this orange Magic Hour on the East River
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Harry tattooed arm laid lazy around my
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neck like a hitching post a giddy ribbon
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unraveling inside me
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each time he cups my face in his palms
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you
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[Applause]
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