The Broken Tower2011

Gorham Munson:
Hart, forgive me for saying this. But you want to speak for America.

Hart Crane:
Yeah.

Gorham Munson:
Does it matter that you're queer?

Hart Crane:
[Annoyed, rolls eyes] Whitman was queer. That's why he could love *all* of America. The roustabouts. The slaves. The, the soldiers he nursed in the Civil War.

Gorham Munson:
So you will expose yourself?

Hart Crane:
It's funny, considering my truckdriver left me. No. People can know everything about us when we're dead. But for now, it's better to keep quiet. For father's sake.

Gorham Munson:
[sarcastically] Right. You wouldn't want to lose that tremendous job for the sake of some queer affirmation.