Greyhound Quean

2GQ is pleased to publish "Greyhound Quean," by poet and editor Louie Crew.

Greyhound Quean

For three score years and five
     Ed (wina) swallowed
in the back stall
     every tough in town,
one by one, in an endless line,
     always looking for Lily Law
in the corner of her eyes.

Squiiiiiiiinch!  each new dime
     would zipper all in line to safety.

Ed (wina) paid one dime a day
to preserve this place.

When Ed (wina) died,
four tatooed men at the morgue
remembered well her services
and, rubber gloved, bore her
quietly, honorably, to a fairy heaven.

Here lies the invester of 233,741 U. S. dimes.

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Louie Crew has edited special issues of College English and Margins and has written four poetry volumes: Sunspots (Lotus Press, 1976), Midnight Lessons (Samisdat, 1987), Lutibelle's Pew (Dragon Disks, 1990), and Queers! for Christ's Sake! (Dragon Disks, 2004). Crew's papers are collected by the University of Michigan.