I sent you into the liquor store

And on every shelf you found

Me pining, needing, clawing for

an Absolut only a man,

Shoulders wide with contentment,

Could bring a gay boy who came

From nothing and may very well stay there.

 

I once had dreams

Of marrying an old man

And inheriting money

Stained with the guilt

Of having no children to pass it on to.

 

Love makes me sick

Just like the vodka I drank

Last night lost in woods

Boys my age never escaped.


Carter Cavaliere is a second-year English major at Penn State. He grew up in Pittsburgh but is a State College boy through and through. In his spare time he enjoys hanging out with friends, playing The Sims, and listening to Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey. After college he plans on either attending graduate school or doing marketing for a publishing house.