Aubade. By Louis P. Burns aka Lugh © 2008.

[Louis P. Burns aka Lugh]

aubade
by Louis P. Burns aka Lugh © 2008. All rights reserved.
Editor - Catherine Edmunds.

"oh" was all I could say
recalling the night before's fun
letting it in
letting it run
letting it lay

"so this is gay"

"eh?"

"nothing
go back to sleep"

sheets ruffled
springs squeaked

I could've stayed
but I left in silence
save the floorboard's creak
and the jangle of coins in my pocket

[Louis P. Burns aka Lugh]

Notes For Passers By
By Louis P. Burns aka Lugh © 2008. All rights reserved.

• I've just been rereading this poem of mine with an aim to adapting it to screenplay then onto video-poem. As a result I was prompted to recall the series of online workshops where I wrote this one and the argument I had with John Irvine aka icarusweeping about those last few lines. I still think my version of the poem is correct but now accept that poets are by 'our' very nature - anarchic and argumentative bastards ...
  
  Editing of the piece was by Catherine Edmunds aka delph_ambi and the workshops were facilitated by Mike Daniels aka danimik. Both are members on here and 'mostly harmless' if not outright 'lovely'...
  
  I'm also recalling ThisLittleDee's comments on the same workshops and how the reference to 'change jangling in my pocket' as I leave a gay sex scene could be a reference to a sexual encounter with a rent boy...
  
  If it pleases the court I'm innocent. If it doesn't, I'm entertainment. Poetry is funny that way ...