Drawing Distinctions.

Cerebrally if not affectively Ich bin
gay lesbian bi trans queer in case it’s
not obvious:  un-straight by any
measurement my life-of-minding
across borders and frontiers yet unknown—
talwart pioneering brave new whirls,
innovating if not rigor at least some 
ears of a clown

You can characterize me inyour own
terms, my efforts to crack an academic
citadel, call out groves of  whimsy,
presume to  provoke free playnot as 
alternative to our disciplinary rigorosity
but mere supplement: pedagogies for the
repressed if not depressed: noetic 
gymnastics for alma matrix not to be
collapsed, conflated, or confused with
practical life and  the resume-polishing
professional wisdom of the bawdy politic..