“And there’s no such thing
as an insincere
erection is there?”

–Thom Gunn from the poem “Tenderloin” in his book The Man with Night Sweats

Thomson William “Thom” Gunn (August 29, 1929 – April 25, 2004) was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement, and his later poetry in America, even after moving towards a looser, free-verse style. Wikipedia