Stephen Vincent wrote:
>>Therefore (he said, clearing his
>>throat), any poetry I read is implicitly an acknowledgment of some
>>aspect of the Divine, and by that I do not mean a female impersonator
>>from Baltimore who acted in John Waters movies.
>>
>>
>Ken, you have to go back and look in Divine's eyes. Pure divinity is my
>recollection.
>
>
Beneath all that mascara and eye-liner was a figure of faith and belief:-).
Actually that's not funny. Where...I know I did this and didn't dream
it...did I read an interview with Divine? Probably off a John Waters
website. Divine's recollections of his youth were horrid. The British
child psychoanalyst Edward Glover wrote "Early childhood is living in a
lavatory over a butcher shop while it's being shelled by artillery."
With Divine he got that right...and yet this guy took his position as
the school "faggot" and appeared to make something weird and artistic
out of it. "I will be what you say I am, because I can, because I
believe this way of mine is not a curse but a gift." I don't know if he
thought that or said it, but it defines a form of faith.
Ken
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