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At the risk of starting a taobums riot, I'd like to introduce bums who might not be familiar with his work to late gay male poet James Broughton. He's someone who tells us that "there is only ONE temple in the world and that is the human body", and that "the proper activity in a temple is worship. Share your holiness. Visit each other's temples." That advice may not to be to everyone's taste, I know. You might not want to visit his temple, but if you're interested in sex and spirit and love and the ways they might come together in the world--if you're interested in that, you really should read his poetry. "Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing" James Broughton This is it This is It and I am It and You are It and so is That and He is It and She is It and It is It and That is That O it is This and it is Thus and it is Them and it is Us and it is Now and Here It is and Here We are so This is It James Broughton Having Come This Far I've been through what my through was to be. I did what I could and couldn't. I was never sure how I would get there. I nourished an ardor for thresholds, for stepping stones and for ladders. I discovered detour and ditch. I swam in the high tides of greed. I built sandcastles to house my dreams. I survived the sunburns of love. No longer do I hunt for targets. I've climbed all the summits I need to, and I've eaten my share of lotus. Now I give praise and thanks for what could not be avoided, and for every foolhardy choice. I cherish my wounds and their cures, and the sweet enervations of bliss. My book is an open life. I wave goodbye to the absolutes, and send my regards to infinity. I'd rather be blithe than correct. Until something transcendent turns up I splash in my poetry puddle and try to keep God amused." James Broughton