Poem: For Jack and Langston

I.
The queer majority's floating
On the other side of the weather pattern
Jack Teagarden sends his regards
To one who lives there
We're all entangled like that

II.
The dharma bums are being
Washed in the blood over
At Langston Hughes' crib
Free at last from the shallow state
And all those ads you can't x out of

M. Bogen
Feb. 2021