TWENTY-YEAR CHIP
Twenty years ago, today,
I took my last drink of
King Alcohol.
Breaking probation
After school:
Ken’s dad’s liquor in
Ken’s backyard,
With Luke, Ivan, Beau,
Matt ‘n Mike.
When Ken’s mom came home
We jumped the fence
And into my father’s
Hand-me-down Honda Accord,
A jumble of bodies on the
road,
Over to Matt’s on
Christmas Tree Lane.
But Beau had forgotten his
weed.
On my way back with Beau,
The Accord went through a
stop
On Middlefield Road, and a
car
Slammed into our front,
Spinning the Accord.
I chose to drive away,
First a side street,
– letting Beau out –
And then a roundabout way
Back home, where
The cops were waiting.
I was made a ward of the
court.
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Ivan jumped from a parking
Garage in San Francisco;
Luke is in a rock band;
Ken lives in Japan;
Beau, I don’t know; drunk driving,
Mike lost his license at
age thirty-five.
I’ve addicted myself to
other things
Like imagination, coffee,
and sex.
I put the crazy man I was
Into the crazy men I play;
Acting is my drinking,
Movies are my drugs.
DUMBO
Dumb is me,
As a young elephant I was
shy,
From too much attention,
So, speak I didn’t.
A young animal:
At age thirteen, life
plunked
Me down in junior high,
Like Dumbo in the circus.
As I grew,
Isolation followed me
And the only recourse
Was to drink hard with the
clowns.
Pink elephants
Paraded and sloshed
Through my youth
Until I became a sinister
clown,
With a smile painted
So thick
I looked mad-happy, always.
And I never flew,
I never flew.
Straight James / Gay James
– Poems, James Franco
James Franco publica el 01/01/2016 un
controvertido libro de poesía que Amazon describe como un poemario donde
“Franco escribe sobre su vida como actor, su sexualidad, cuestiones de
identidad, género, familia, Gucci, Lana del Rey, James Dean y Hollywood”. Una
verdadera miscelánea de tendencias e intimidades que sacan al Franco más
auténtico.
El libro contiene una entrevista que el ‘James
hetero’ realiza al ‘James gay’, como publica el medio Four Two Nine. El
resultado de esta locura es la supuesta –y justificada– salida del armario del
álter ego gay. “Me gusta pensar que soy gay en mi arte y hetero en mi vida”,
confiesa Franco. “Todo depende de lo que signifique ser gay, si se ciñe solo al
sexo, soy heterosexual. En los años 20 y 30, se consideraba gay una forma de
ser o actuar sin importar con quién te acostabas. Los marineros tenían sexo con
otros hombres, pero como eran muy masculinos, no se les consideraba gays”.
http://shangay.com/james-franco-entrevista-a-su-%C3%A1lter-ego-gay
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Straight James / Gay James – Poems, James Franco
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