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    Sticked, Stoned & Bottled
    Sticked, Stoned & Bottled
    Sticked, Stoned & Bottled
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    Sticked, Stoned & Bottled

    By Scott Gibson

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    Navigating the ups and downs of the gay life can prove challenging when inundated by religious judgment and misunderstanding. Sticked, Stoned & Bottled, a poem by Scott Gibson, uses a prescriptive form as a metaphor for the structured life that organized religion attempts to create. Gibson's language flows with the ups and downs of life, beautiful at times yet laborious at others, giving the reader the emotional ride that most gay people experience in their attempt to find their own happiness and truth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScott Gibson
    Release dateNov 15, 2014
    ISBN9781942378020
    Sticked, Stoned & Bottled
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    Scott Gibson

    Scott Gibson holds an MA in Education from the University of Colorado - Boulder and an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University. During his time at Naropa, he attended a vigil for Matthew Shepard on the steps of the capital in Denver shortly after Matthew's death. Feeling empty after the vigil, he felt like he needed to do more. Six months later, Blood & Tears, Poems for Matthew Shepard, an anthology of 75 poems by 75 different poets, was published by Painted Leaf Press in New York City.Scott later went into education, teaching high school English for several years before moving into school administration. He considers himself a lifelong educator and continues to work with school districts, coaches, and the community to encourage the understanding of diversity, especially pertaining to gay and adopted youth. Scott adopted his three kids through Boulder County Human Services and has recently become a grandfather. He lives in Boulder with his family and 3 dogs.Scott is most interested in encouraging those who have been silenced by conservative family values and misunderstandings to find their true voices.

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      Sticked, Stoned & Bottled - Scott Gibson

      WHITE

      (adj.) the color of pure snow, the margins of this page, etc. reflecting nearly all waves of sunlight (human beings); marked by slight pigmentation of skin whose racial heritage is Caucasian, a white club, a white neighborhood; pallid or pale as from fear or other strong emotion, white with rage; lacking color, transparent (white fags); Politically. ultraconservative, morally pure, innocent; to be or cause to be deprived of one’s resources, dishonesty is bleeding the church white; (n.) in the white, in an unfinished state or condition; (often cap.) a member of a royalist, conservative, or reactionary political party; to censor as by obliterating words or passages with white; without malice, harmless but hoarse, providing confusion like thunder (white thunder) rain on the edges; Entomol. any of several white-winged butterflies of the family Pieridae.

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      Love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven.¹

      there it was

      fresh ice

      on a branch, white

      crystal edges

      on the outside

      empty like

      jumbled sands around it

      (this bottle)

      the sun-burnt tree

      was a tree,

      black crusted, opaque

      and tiny like glass

      shards, my heart was

      (stuffed in, un-plunged)

      When lawlessness is abroad in the land, the same thing will happen here that happened in Nazi Germany. Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals, the two things seem to go together; it is a pathology, it is a sickness.²

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      BROKEN

      (adj.) reduced to parts, ruptured, torn, fractured like the metal pick, carefully corrupted, not functioning properly like earth, thorn in skin, handle with care, caress with passion, with ice. Of sky cover. more than half, but not half, covered with blankets, with white, with clouds, comma, (also scattered); changing direction abruptly as a mirror (ufo), a facsimile printed on a broken line made of mud, petrified like taffy, unchanged or incomplete, another infringement or violation, the broken glass forms from sand, from sleep, from tears, another glass, another violation, interrupted, returning to broken sleep, (be sad with me—do not wipe those eyes) disrupted, weakened in strength, encrusted, (spirit) reduced to submission, I have removed you from myself, (imperfectly) spoken like language, are you mad? Are you normal? Under emotional strain, disunited, divided, an open door, no, cracked open like a hot trunk, cracked

      cute white cornered on the east side, (rough, irregular) ruined.

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      When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.³

      the leafless

      stems of that torso,

      stubborn, still

      bold, but without

      determined placement,

      without its sweet guts,

      no red juice

      or sap, yet somehow

      beans, somewhat

      white as bleach,

      oddly fired

      marshmallow white

      dried tears

      on my cheek,

      they stood like beasts,

      broad, elegant

      I went to the gym for months

      for muscles, a look

      of luxury, for forearms

      and pits like temples

      Involvement in homosexuality can kill you. It can kill you emotionally, it can kill you physically, and it can certainly kill you spiritually.⁴

      they’re

      laughing at me,

      my stories, my

      two dimensional

      spheres, they’re playing

      resuscitation games

      on this stomach with

      stones and sticks, they’re

      singing, light gray,

      white, and clouded

      diamond raindrops

      named John (a raindrop)

      in white, full

      of heat and salt,

      quoting pope,

      though still empty, all

      hopeless inside

      the bottle,

      the clear glass,

      filmed

      with smoke,

      burning butts,

      fags again, inside

      the bottle

      extinguished

      though in the white

      cloudless sky

      a

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