Gay Street There’s a little game I like to play when I’m on the street and on my own. What it means I hesitate to say ‘though it does have to do with my being gay and the men who I pass as they walk alone. There’s a little game I like to play. I would not say that I play this game every day or that this is behavior that I condone. What it means I hesitate to say: fantasies about men who cross my way, lurid matchups with well-toned, mustached clones. There’s a little game I like to play that’s like a little game once called “Betray” or “Cheater’s Choice” or “Cum what may.” What it means I hesitate to say but the new game’s pretend. I need not pay the piper. There’s nothing here to atone. There’s a little game I like to play. What it means I hate to say.
A recent grantee of Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation, Curious Elixirs: Curious Creators, and LMCC, Drew Pisarra is the author of You’re Pretty Gay (2021) and Publick Spanking, two collections of short stories, and Infinity Standing Up (2019) and Periodic Boyfriends (2023), two collections of homoerotic sonnets. Additionally, he was a participating poet at A Gathering of the Tribes two-day reading at The Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It’s Kept.
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