Sax's A Fetus Dream

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Sax’s “gay boys…” has an interesting form – everything is in lower case, and I interpret that to mean the silence and minority that the society is trying to force on the queer community. The poem itself is a narrative poem about a gay person who tries to self-destruct or commit suicide due to lack of acceptance. The narrator says “it is not what drove your body like a stolen car/why you abandoned it on this unreasonable ledge” (19). I loved and enjoyed the complexity of Thacker’s “A Fetus Dreams…” Starting from the title “Tenement” and the first line’s “masonry,” the whole poem builds an empire of meaning and imagery. I love the juxtaposition of brain, Metis, Adam, Eve because it builds a house of foolish wisdom. The Biblical allusion of man