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and let him, if he wanted to, dance around the porch by himself,
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just laugh and enjoy myself watching him,
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maybe why I gave him my hand and let him place his arm
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around my back and push me dreamily around
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that old bluestone floor, was because I had been there
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that day when her corpse was still warm-- [that's Iris' corpse]
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and seen what he'd looked like.
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The corpse pops up in the middle of this reflection on why he's dancing.
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So, two times in the space of a page, death accompanies
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his decision to dance with Coleman.
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So, why then is homoerotic desire such a threat, a threat in this way?
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Well, one structural reason could be that homoerotic desire threatens to