“The Age-New Question”
Journey to identify
my mind walks a million miles
humming of the desktop lashes out the silence
a blinding screen with an ocean of blue and purple links
tracking the visits
in the middle of the night
buzzfeed
online blogs
uncertain where to click on these
the first results usually are the more popular ones
“Am I gay? Take a quiz now!”
the questions are straight forward:
“Attraction to the same sex?”
No.
.
.
Yes?
“Attraction to the opposite sex?”
Um maybe?
talks at recess are hard to listen to
when your friends know what they like and are.
a simple answer to a simple question,
“Am I gay?”
next pages came the Kinsey Scale:
the “Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale”
0 to 6
0 - exclusively heterosexual:
watching football and punching each other just to prove
a level of masculinity.
6 - exclusively homosexual:
the glitter that eulogizes the freedom of expression.
the sounds of footsteps choke my attention
erasing the search history and killing the computer
i go to sleep with the pendulum in my mind
“Am I gay?”
About the Creator
Oswaldo Gomez Zamora
On the jounry to bring a Latino/Queer pov to the world of litature.
Phx, Az
My genres of intrest are horror, fantasy, and romance.
Twitter: @waldoaldo97
Ao3: waldoaldo97
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