2002 / Writing

FOR GAY RIGHTS (2000)

2002

You’d pay good money
to keep me out
Hand out yellow earplugs
not to hear me shout
I’m here and I’m queer
and I’ll be damned if I’m not out

So think on it carefully
before you lobby and cry:
Look at them!
Here they come ready to take our world
and capture the sun

Oh, we couldn’t if we tried
We’re just surviving just like anyone

Constellation

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