Requiem for a Snappy Dresser

In his new collection of poetry, Requiem for a Snappy Dresser: Poems of Expiation and Conceit, author Nicholas Nicholas 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. 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. One More Poem One more poem to writeAbout the old man and the little boyBut the poem will write and right itselfMy hand the aging instrument joining the twoIt isn't time quite yetBut soon the two must meetEmbraceMergeAnd move to life's next placeA young boy's resolutionOn an old man's wrinkled face