Analysis of The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar
this gin-heavy heaven, blessed ground to think gay & mean we.
bless the fake id & the bouncer who knew
this need to be needed, to belong, to know how
a man taste full on vodka & free of sin. i know not which god to pray to.
i look to christ, i look to every mouth on the dance floor, i order
a whiskey coke, name it the blood of my new savior. he is just.
he begs me to dance, to marvel men with the
dash
of hips i brought, he deems my mouth in some stranger’s mouth necessary.
bless that man’s mouth, the song we sway sloppy to, the beat, the bridge, the length
of his hand on my thigh & back & i know not which country i am of.
i want to live on his tongue, build a home of gospel & gayety
i want to raise a city behind his teeth for all boys of choirs & closets to refuge in.
i want my new god to look at the mecca i built him & call it damn good
or maybe i’m just tipsy & free for the first time, willing to worship anything i can taste.
Scheme | ABCBDEFGAHIEJKL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101111111 101101011 111110101111 011111011111111111 111111110011011110 0101110111110111 11111110110 1 1111111101101100 11110111101010101 1111111111110111 11111111011101 1111010011111111101100 111111110101111111 1101110110111011010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,030 |
Words | 209 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 703 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 203 |
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Written on 2017
Submitted by Drone232 on June 28, 2022
Modified on May 04, 2023
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