bisexuality – Chris Bevens

Who I May Be

This poem is for all the many men of America who just let us down so greatly. All of you who have been waiting decades now for a cause and a reason to show you are strong and courageous and capable of protecting the things you hold dear. I saw you when I was aContinue reading “Who I May Be”

Everytime You Drive Home I Think of the Color of Your Skin

Everytime you arrive I’ve been thinking of your smileAnd everytime you arrive I’ve been thinking of your eyes and how you smell the feeling of your arms around me about conversations on Cy Twombly and The Frye and The Broad and basements of museums and churches and what it was like what happened and whatContinue reading “Everytime You Drive Home I Think of the Color of Your Skin”

Don’t Be A Sexy Man

Be macho,not too macho, but be machoand be funny,but appropriate. Be smart,but not an expert, no onelikes an expert. But be smart,from your gut,feel it from your gut, like itwas born there; no,your loins, rather. Feel it from your loins, andsay it like you mean it,and be yourself. Don’t bring upyour loins.Be yourself, be yourContinue reading “Don’t Be A Sexy Man”

Julia’s Squeezy TV Remote

I was fortunate to have known all four of my grandparents as a child. The last to survive, my maternal grandfather, Clark, recently passed at a month shy of ninety-nine. He was a machinist, a veteran (though he never talked about that), and tinkerer. He had a motorcycle, the first one I ever rode on.Continue reading “Julia’s Squeezy TV Remote”

Hi! Bi! – coming out part 1

I never thought I’d come out of the closet, because I never thought I was in one. At times as a kid I did wonder, and worry I might be gay, but it didn’t reconcile with the fact that I really liked girls. Well into adulthood I came to terms with the fact that IContinue reading “Hi! Bi! – coming out part 1”