(with
apologies to T. S. Eliot and Dante Alighieri)
“S'io
credesse che mia risposta fosse
A
persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa
fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma
penciocche gammai di questo fondo
Non
torno viva alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza
tema d'infamia ti rispondo”*
When
I see Vlad P.
it
makes me think
what
would it be like
if
we met for a drink?
Though
I don't drink,
I
have to say
looking
at Vlad,
I
wish I was gay.
He
seems so strong,
so
self-possessed.
Could
I rest my head
on
his manly chest?
Then
with my head
lying
peacefully there,
would
he run his hands
through
what's left of my hair?
Would
it disturb the universe
if
Vlad played doctor
while
I played his nurse?
I
have, as you know,
“been
with” a porn star,
but
oh how I long
to
“be with” the Tsar.
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*“If
I thought that my reply were given to anyone who might return to the
world, this flame would stand forever still; but since never from
this deep place has anyone returned alive, if what I hear is true,
without fear of infamy I answer thee.” — “Inferno”