"Open"

This rectangular sign
in a square window
on a corner block,
blinks and flickers
its neon red
in irregular beats,
entices you to
come-in-and-see
the wonders inside,
as patrons slink-in
and gay-buzz wafts out.

It’s a place of freedom
for the price of a pilsner,
with like-minded men
with men on their mind,
loose ties and loose libidos,
where men embrace and
have pent-up excitement show
in this private/public place
as they could not display
in public, emotions so, private.