Friday, December 10, 2010

Why there weren't gays on Star Trek



    Threatened with
wanting    some softer, more
              natural love

up there,

    a leaf, in an alien sense
             (a symbiont

 leaf!) is
    still closing on itself

    Which isn't why at all

    An alien's hope is to be freed
from    an elitist rock

    Anything closing
as smartly as its resistant curl

—alone in a parasitic Star—
            weirdly visible,

with one eye set on warping need
            only,          
     is bound to be mashed

    The smart alecky, leafy way to
            stay soft
            up in space!

6 comments:

nouvelles couleurs - vienna atelier said...

:-) very good tought Conrad!

see you my dear

Conrad DiDiodato said...

Ciao, Laura!

E 'bello vederti qui. Grazie per le tue parole meravigliose

TJCIII said...

There were gays on Star Trek, probably multitudes of them, the only difference between now and the future, the mindset must be changed to quit singling people out because they are different, but learn to embrace diversity in our own race.

Conrad DiDiodato said...

TJCIII,

I couldn't agree more. If my poem didn't in some significant fashion echo your views, then it failed.

I believe in space the mindset is likely to stay the same. The cynic in me.

Thanks for visiting. Your comments are appreciated.

Penn Kemp said...

Leafing is best
left to those longing
belonging to the other
falling mates...

Conrad, reading your poems so often tricks me into writing! Thank you!

Conrad DiDiodato said...

In the words of one of Jackson Mac Low's "friendship" poems,

"Thankyouthankyouthankyou"