Requiem for a Snappy Dresser

<p>In his new collection of poetry <em>Requiem for a Snappy Dresser: Poems of Expiation and Conceit</em> author <strong>Nicholas Nicholas</strong> shares his attempt to reconcile his own life in terms of family sex love loneliness illness death and aging. This compilation of his work offers autobiographical adult-themed poems many of them explicit and on the subject of being gay. He presented some of these verses during his ongoing psychotherapy sessions in a Los Angeles California Veteran’s Administration medical center writing them as he fought paranoia fear disease depression and enormous self-doubt.</p> <p>Nicholas considers these and other issues with often brutal candor shocking irreverence sensitivity defiance and surprising humor. He writes with honesty about the danger loneliness and pain of self-isolation. With this collection of poems he hopes to provide others with insight understanding and maybe some compassion for all people—male or female gay or straight—as they approach and experience their own inevitable final years of life.</p> <p><strong>One More Poem</strong></p> <p>One more poem to write<br />About the old man and the little boy<br />But the poem will write and right itself<br />My hand the aging instrument joining the two<br />It isn’t time quite yet<br />But soon the two must meet<br />Embrace<br />Merge<br />And move to life’s next place<br />A young boy’s resolution<br />On an old man’s wrinkled face</p>