Don't Hang Up
Don't hang up,
I'm not a heckler.
I need your help
but I can't tell you my name.
I'm in a phone booth
while mom buys groceries,
so I won't take long.
I heard your talk show
and I'm scared. Last summer,
when I was just thirteen,
I balled with a guy
I met at the bus station.
Now I've got these purple spots
all down my stomach.
I drink five shakes a day
and I have lost fifteen pounds
in just three months!
I'm afraid to go to our doctor
cause he's my dad.
He'd beat the shit out of me
for liking guys.
Can you tell me somebody else
to call?
Cripes! Here comes mom. Bye!
-- Louie Crew
Publication history
- Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social
Services 7.3 (1997): 105-106.
- Rural Gays and Lesbians. An
Anthology edited by James D. Smith and Ronald Mancoske. NY:
Harrington Park Press, 1997. Pages 105-106.
- Making Waves 2.2 (February 1995):
2.
- Don't Hang Up: An Anthology of Poems
about AIDS. Edited by Andrew Miller. Univ. of SD Press, USD
AIDS Task Force, & Copen Foundation, 1993. Crew's title poem
appears on p. 16.
- Blue Productions August 1992. A
3-minute video produced and directed by Scott Silver. An
adaptation of Crew's poem of the same title.
- Integrity Heartland Voice June
1992: 11.
- Integrity/Austin News 7.11 (July
1992): 3.
- Koinonia 5.5 (May 1992): 11.
- More Light Update 13.5 (December
1992): 13.
- Walking With Integrity 1.2 (May
1992): 23.
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