NO, this is NOT a poem about sex! But some might think it so.
I’m prompted to write, about men in dresses, by a movie made long ago.
In 1953 Bela Lugosi, of Dracula fame, and others made a very different flick.....
about a man for whom dressing-as-a-man was simply not his schtick.
“Glen or Glenda? ” was the title of the movie, about a transvestite with the name Glen.....
who dithered about telling his fiancée his secret. How to tell her and when?
And HOW would she react? Would she “freak” to find he wanted to wear her sweater?
Or would her love for him endure, and together their lives might be better?
The movie starts with a police investigation of a man’s unfortunate death.
A transvestite, arrested four times for dressing in drag*, put an end to his breathe.
The detective sought answers about the dead man’s dilemma-of-dress.
The movie is an acted-out documentary, though part of it is a confusing mess.
Hermaphrodites and pseudo-hermaphrodites are explained to us,
but homosexuals were only mentioned in passing. [In 1953 why cause MORE fuss! ]
It seems transvestites are “normal” men in most every “man” way.
But they crave to wear women’s clothing. For that reason, they dress up, to women-portray
Bela Lugosi, seated in front of ghoulish curios, in a conservative suit,
serves as a sort-of movie moderator, and shows some amusing expressions to boot.
Glen tries to quit his habit, which the movie blames on his childhood.
For the sake of his hoped-for marriage, he’d give up women’s clothes if he could.
I won’t tell you how the movie ended, unless of course you ask.
Living “successfully” as a transvestite would seem an impossible task.
(July 28,2013)
i m not sure but usually people who have tendencies to be transvestite, apotheosize females.maybe it s the other form of masochism.deifying other gender so they do whatever to be the same as the other gender is.~nb
well, well and well.! This work makes sense for. I had a classmate who was a Transvestite. I even saw him once while he was wearing a scarf. (a blue one) but he didnt try to change himself. He loved what he was.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Now it is 2017 and I find I misspelled " breath " as "breathe" which is a related word. Line 10.