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June 1, 2018
 

Florida Again

 
Randall Mann

                       I forgave myself for having had a youth.
                                                                  —Thom Gunn

 

At the Fashion
Square mall,
back
of Waldenbooks,

 

I saw my younger self
haunting
the magazine rack.
Ripping out pages

 

of Blueboy,
tucking them
in a Trapper
Keeper.

 

Turn back.
His eyes met mine,
animal
and brittle,

 

a form
of gratitude
that a man
kept his stare.

 

Any man.
I half-smiled
some admission,
and though

 

he couldn't
see it coming,
I excused him
his acid jeans;

 

two Swatch
watches,
two guards.
He, I,

 

must have been
nineteen:
sex was "safer"
then—

 

scribbles
on the mall
men's room stall;
malaise

 

of saxophone
and PSAs.
How
did I

 

even
learn how to live
in 1991?
Landlocked,

 

cock-blocked,
Spanish moss
festering.
I forgive him.

 

 

 
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Copyright © 2018 Randall Mann. Used with permission of the author.
Randall Mann reads "Florida Again."

About This Poem

 

"I was recently in a mall bookstore, and as I watched the men shift and avert their eyes in front of the porno mags, I remembered doing much the same thing in Florida, the desolation and excitement of trying to get a glimpse of something illicit and queer—and I felt an overwhelming sense of tenderness toward my younger self. The epigraph and, to some extent, formal structure of the poem come from Gunn's 'Talbot Road.'"
—Randall Mann
Randall Mann

 

Randall Mann is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Proprietary (Persea Books, 2017). He lives in San Francisco.

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