This memoire in poetry, Dodging Bullies, is a chapbook about growing up and into being an out gay man, and then living enhanced surrounded by like-experienced friends. These poems are about the healing power of language and the graceful sense of becoming old, always with the hope there could be, would be, more acceptance. Some of these poems were finalists or honorable mentions selected by Passager Journal, Orchard Street Press, and Rush Magazine.