personally, i find it biographical.
i am certain i am not the only one.

good shit.

i like how your heart is masculine.

I write this because as I read through this I compared your defecation with the idea. It makes me think about all the shit I have been through and how much of it was mine to begin with and I couldn’t recognize it as mine until I had tasted it a few dozens times in front of a packed house.

Thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed reading it. Keep it coming.

Loved the ending…the words are stamping themselves inside my brain:

“And the train enters and do-si-dos
With kindred spirit trains
To the strain of whistles blown
For dream time” –profound!

Here’s a few ‘defs’ of words in poem for readers:

Gelato
“(Italian pronunciation: [dʒeˈlaːto]; plural: gelati) is the italian word for ice cream. Italians use the word gelato to mean a sweet treat that is served frozen. Gelato is made with milk, cream, various sugars, and flavoring such as fresh fruit and nut purees.”

Birra Moretti
“was an Italian brewing company, founded in Udine in 1859 by Luigi Moretti. In 1996 the company was acquired by Heineken International. The brewing plant in Udine was sold to the newly formed Birra Castello S.p.A.; Moretti is now a brand of Heineken. There are eight beers under the Birra Moretti brand. Birra Moretti is the main brand, a 4.6% abv pale lager launched in 1859.”

Payot
“(also pe’ot, peyot, payos, peyos; Hebrew: singular ,פֵּאָה ;plural
,פֵּאוֹ‎) is the Hebrew word for sidelocks or sidecurls. Payot are worn by some men and boys in the Orthodox Jewish community based on an interpretation of the Biblical injunction against shaving the “corners” of one’s head. Literally, pe’ah means corner, side or edge.”

fedora
“( /fɨˈdɔːrə/) is a men’s felt hat. The term is usually generic, describing any men’s hat that does not already have another name; a few fedoras have names of their own, including the trilby.[1]
The hat is typically creased lengthwise down the crown and “pinched” in the front on both sides,[2] though the creasing does not define the hat. Fedoras can also be creased with teardrop crowns, diamond crowns, center dents, and others, and the positioning of pinches can vary. The typical crown height is 4.5 inches (11.4 centimeters).”

I appreciated the laundry/clothes motiff thru-out and use of symbology
with ‘white’, ‘bleach’, ‘bleed’ and ‘colors’. I think there’s probably no better way to say this thing about men the way you said it:
“I remember learning that there were men in the world
who wanted to teach me about the men in the world…” –well put.

It’s good to take-in a poem with articulate use of craft and conveyance of genuine experience and feeling. thx for sharing!

gonna try to work a shorter more concrete style with my own stuff this year and see how it goes. nice chattin’. If yaw ever come up to Stephenville to check out the country music in the ‘cowboy capital of the world’ (lol), drop by for a beer. later