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Rubber Ducky
For Chris M.
by Edmund Miller
Wearing a tiny rubber dance costume
Recycled from an old inner tube, Chris
With his small frame and big-eyed look of bliss
Stirs even all the young guys in the room
To a frenzy of daddy devotion.
"Some day I'll sail clear across the ocean!"
He vows. "And say in the poem I played
Football in my college days." I'm dismayed:
As Aristotle was first to construe,
The truth leads poetry into muddles
Unless there's some probability too.
I fear inner tube adrift on the blue—
Refuse to believe those football huddles.
He's just a baby and still needs cuddles!
Chris was a biology major at Pace University, where he did, in fact, play football for the Setters. "But," he says, "the weight of the bigger guys was too much. I was doing pretty good and scoring touchdowns, but it started to hurt." Chris has done television—soaps and Sex and the City—and off Broadway—Ronnie Larsen's All-Male Peep Show. He was also in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown. As Rick Darius, he has been photographed by Terry Studio for Torso and Playguy and by Daniel Perry for the cover of the June 1997 Playguy. His first major solo adventure on his sailboat The Salty Dog was cut short when he fell asleep and ran aground on a reef.
From The Go-Go Boy Sonnets: Men of the New York Club Scene
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