my best jeans saved
for friday nights
no i don’t smoke weed anymore
but thankyou
full strength beer for dancing me
i’m just getting started
there is a fucking homophobe
in the downstairs bar
sure i rock even at my age i sing
in whispers to me
what a pretty shirt he has on
and off and on again
go in the side door the bouncer says
its free for you tonight
i remember him from decades ago
in a night-life sex blur
his ripped jeans worn well
on saturday nights
Stephen House has won many awards and nominations as a poet, playwright and actor. He has had 20 plays produced, many of them commissioned. He’s received international literature residencies from The Australia Council and Asialink. His chapbook “real and unreal” was published by ICOE Press. His next book is out soon. His poetry is published often and he performs his acclaimed monologues widely.
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