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Our guest blogger this week, Linzey Corridon, is a poet, Vanier Canada Scholar, and PhD Candidate in the department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. His critical and creative works can be found in Canada and Beyond, SX Salon, Wasafiri, The Puritan and more. A born and raised Queeribbean man from the polymorphic island nations of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, he now resides in Ontario, Canada. You can read his previous BILD guest post here.
Quotidians
The night is cool, some fifteen minutes past nine. I’m dressed in all blue, navy shorts and a Euro-fit polo shirt. I slip a classic pair of white leather Converses onto my feet. A Sleek and inviting look for yet another evening out on the town. I am heading to dinner in Baie Orientale, Saint Martin, by car. With me is my fiancé and Vincentian partner of fourteen years, Kevin. Accompanying Kevin is his friend of twenty-six years, Michael, a man also born and raised in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, who is visiting Saint Martin from the neighbouring Caribbean island-nation of Guadeloupe. Michael has taken a particular liking to Shay, a first-generation Jamaican Canadian, one of my closest friends and confidants since I left Saint Vincent for Canada. Michael and Shay are wrapped up in each other over conversation. Driving the car is Davis, a French-Caribbean local and close friend of Shay’s, now my acquaintance of some ten months. In the passenger seat, opposite Davis, sits his partner, Joshua. Joshua is Anguillan, visiting from the neighbouring island-nation just a fifteen-minute ferry ride away from SXM. The two have been dating for approximately eight months. They are madly infatuated with one another, and the duo steal every opportunity they can find to recite their desires for one another to those sitting behind them.
