Song of a Reformed Headhunter

Debbie Chou set my poem "A Position of Defeat 24" to music and sang it at the "Celebrating Sound" event last night. It was a moving and humbling experience, hearing my rhyming quatrains dissolve and then rejoin into a highly coherent, inten sely dramatic, composition. I felt as if she and I truly met last night through Matthew Edison Bremer, in whose memory the poem was written.  Her singing at the piano was a beautiful climax to an evening of poetry and music, which she put together. Jason Irwin, Jennifer Harmon and I read. Two Moon Cafe, where it all took place, also showcased the striking nude photographs of Debbie's husband, James M. Graham.

30. A Manifesto for Defeatism in honor of Matthew Edison Bremer, aka “Sean,” who had everything and took his life we cannot climb up to the sun we cannot sink deep in the earth coming from plenty or from dearth we cannot change one thing thats done we cannot separate love from lust we cannot be but drawn to power cantering through the hoops of hours we cannot stop us from being us we buy the world and we are bought we sell the lot and we are sold everything has its price in gold every thought that will be thought the west indies poet last night invoked dante and arnaut daniel the servers three handsome devils tipped to the salon full of whites so tall and beautiful was one i lost all interest in the voice going on about chiasmus and longed to fuck him in the kitchen he was far too professional to mix together work and fun the poet going on about puns had no qualms about being on call the good we do produ...

i.m. Matthew Edison Bremer 24. the sun was high the morning he bottomed by a pool tastefully appointed with books the all-american with esquire good looks so young he could have just come from the prom high too when he was tag-teamed by two men their cocks stuffing his hungry mouth and ass highest when fucking the big-boob stewardess he brought ken to his knees sucking his glans overdosed on prescription medicine provided, some say, by a kindly client in life he went by matt on screen by sean no matter now the worms have him in turn