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A Poem for “Gym Class,” featuring an Anonymous for S.T.H. Tee. 

February kicked off with the Gym Class party at The House of Yes, organized by Shelton Lindsay and Michael Fiorentino, with the intent of liberating the anxious feelings going to gym class implied for many of us in high school.

As the party description explained:

You know what, for me Gym Class all sorts of sucked. I was always picked last for dodgeball, always called out for having shorts that were too short, and the locker room was like a fantasy filled with fear. But fuck that. We are adults now. It’s time to reclaim the pain. I love my body, I love being in my body, I like getting sweaty with people and dancing and wearing outfits made for Figure Skaters. So lets go back to gym class together. Let’s get faggy and witchy and hippy and start the night with a Chakra Meditation led by Radical Faerie Dominic Vine (accompanied by the slow, ambient grooves of Kevin Pelrine of Tarot Society of House of Screwball), followed by Bodyroll with VIVA!, a 90’s style dance Aerobics workout.

I attended and had the best time, in celebration of exorcising demons from the past regarding physicality. Inspired, I wrote this poem:

All Wednesdays it was

Names read standing in line

Dry in clothes, soon wet

Yield of exercise 

Writhing sit-up attempt

At once a mental state

Restricted by concerns 

Humid locker room we would strip 

Onto discipline

Languid running 

I remember

Sudden images of Seniors

Attention

Continuous hair on some

Tentatively rising 

Intriguing thickness 

Nuancing nipples 

Grounding crevices 

Tepid atmosphere

Hailing bleach

Roaming eyes

Objects

Under tennis shoes

Grout 

Heeding to speculation 

Making the pupils a brighter focus

Entrancing the psyche with chiseled detail

To the event, I wore an Anonymous for Straight to Hell tee, Uniqlo/SPRZ Andy Warhol sweats, Dominic’s Amazonite necklace, vintage Nikes and an Only NY knit beanie.