I did see the Waters' movie, was it Ms. Divine. But I don't remember all the
down and dirty family London details. It's amazing with how much vigor
he/she danced and performed her way (barely) out of Hell.
S
> 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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