By Drew Pisarra
When you’ve slept with as many men as me, some strange bedfellows will enter the ranks: men you’d prefer were not sexually part of your past, are…and not just as pranks. You were way too old—a decade from death, a former model who’d been nipped and tucked, a minted old bachelor with menthol breath, whose eyebrows and pubes were artfully plucked. How was I seduced? Why did I go back? I hardly found your face that attractive. My searchlight was broken, my dick gone slack. The greed in your touch proved non-reactive. I can’t put in words why I drank that champagne but drink it I did. I should’ve abstained.
Drew Pisarra is the author of Infinity Standing Up (2019), a homoerotic sonnet collection published by Capturing Fire Press, and You’re Pretty Gay (2021), a short story collection published by Chaffinch Press. He’s a 2019 grantee of Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation and a 2021 grantee of Curious Elixirs: Curious Creators. His commissioned radio play The Strange Case of Nick M. premiered on K-BOO-fm c/o Imago Theatre in May 2021.
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