Hakim Bey
Hakim Bey was the penname of prominent anarchist philosopher Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945 – May 22, 2022). Bey was once a frequent contributor to the NAMBLA Bulletin, PAN, Gayme, Ganymede, and other paedophile-sympathetic publications.
- Rock Island Pavanne, by Hakim Bey
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- let's say one of them is almost eight, raggedy-kneed blue-
- jeans & an old slouch tweed cap, hair & eyes both the same
- soft Venetian brown, body svelte as a Caravaggio
- urchin-cherub ~ and the other ten-&-a-half, huge slightly
- crazy green eyes, world record eyelashes, hair the color
- of Lindisfarne-gospel goldleaf ~ wild enthusiasts, boastful
- liars, agents of chaos, cuddle-monsters, extortionists of
- toys & favors, fancy-dancers, dirty jokesters, natural-born
- exiles from the Mundus Imaginalis ~ right! there must be
- millions like them in these frozen flatlands, millions of
- secret epiphanies in thousands of icy boxy little houses at
- every point of the night-whistle-echoing nation ~ but
- imagine just this once instead of staying on the Wabash
- Cannonball or whatever Zephyr you disembark just here & now & finally
- penetrate the mystery of these lost-town boys who might have waited
- unknowingly forever for someone to notice their beauty, might have
- grown old and heavy, square & dull without ever communicating
- their dirty-sweet fragrance & sheer unreasoning joy to a
- single poet ~ but this time you finally get off the train
- in this godforsaken grain-embargoed cowburg ~ and thanks to
- the whim of some nearly defunct amerindian pagan-pervert
- genius locii this time at last you get to meet Jimmy & a
- Joey who are precisely as imagined, feed them cheeseburgers
- & pink shakes & bribe them with action-figures & gum, these
- two microcosms, these two fire-clowns ~ so that all of us
- in a moment of mutual unspoken relief at this shattering of
- worshipful destinies, all of us suddenly gracefully have to
- embrace & kiss, kiss chaste & cool on the lips & grin like
- bobcats for this fortunate derailment, this whistle-stop,
- this milk-run, this hobo's muscatel-dream, this poetico-
- revolutionary action that somehow forever changes the energy
- gradient ~ however slightly, no matter what, no matter who
- knows or even remembers, absolutely, unconditionally,
- nostalgically, painfully, permanently.