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2022-2023 / Writing

ID DO IT AGAIN (PRIDE FLAG)

I want to be clear I am still 100% pissed
But do let me try and explain
Why I’d do it again
Steal a flag and make it fly
Steal a flag for pride

With a board approved vote on videotape!
I tweeted Knowing how likely
And how quick the Board would be
Thrown over And so it had to be
They were stealing from me.
Actual money missing.
Actual credit cards opened in my name.
Absolute charges for too many involved
As it so it often is in liberal politics

I was appalled at the former board
Of BiNet USA and other National Bi leaders
When I shared early info about Covid19
And they dumped stock
Jumped on flights to see loved ones
Then returned to hug whole classrooms
They knew and spread germs!
I know not how many they killed in March 2020
because I thought it wise
To open my mouth to try
And tell everyone: Coronavirus is here!

I learned lots over the next months.
I watched as they did squat Until George Floyd
All of a sudden they felt something
And near the same day they came for me
I was so ready
I was near death
It was me or it was them
And now I tell my stories
To those with
Ears to hear

Ask not why I voted for Trump in 2020
Or believe in the ownership of Bi work
Ask instead why you proclaim
Equality with malice
Ask instead why you cry Marginalization
And trot Black folks
(with very few Black friends)
Out here to say anything
Never once was I treated well
Not once by any proclaimed radical
That’s just how it’s always been
Being the stain On the heel of the
Bottom of these Peoples skin

Meanwhile
You may have noticed A chill
A limited conversation
About bi people Or pan or fluid
Or any group but queer and trans
Almost like bi don’t exist
Even in the months they celebrate it
And yet it do
Yet it do
Just more underground
Than usual
As it’s a pandemic
And how you meet people
Is no longer casual
So how OUT you are
May and often determine how
Much flair you share

Those people in the closet
Who come to meetings
And virtual events
Is who the bi pride flag
Was especially made for
Specifically and quite literally
It’s job is to make money
For BiNet USA, not your local
With the bi flag being sold
by GLSEN in Target stores
Basically no monies went to any of us
Not even us
Who made the flag in
The latest 90’s

So I’d do it again
because
Someone everywhere
Must fight to ensure
Bi stuff isn’t gay shit

Last year we sold more
Bi flags than any other year
And that was with the main store
Unmarketed
The one I built by
making over 1100 unique
Images by hand
(Note: never do that again for anything)

Back in 2011 we donated every image
So every group
Could use ours too
Point being?
Making money for bi groups
Not for me, not for BiNet
But for you deeply ungrateful sods
Is something I was led to do

Not no mo
No more support from me
Not after transphobes and TERFs
Not after NAMBLA supporters
and BDSM torturers

I kinda think bisexual
May be a bit outdated
A little bit done
If bi orgs and leaders support
marginalization and attacks
Against Black intersex moms like me
Why wouldn’t it be?

A violence one person called it
Yet another way to name
a gathering of bis,
And we all saw it
And I think a lot of other people did too
And bi people gonna keep
Angry and stay that way
Over and over, on repeat
Unless prolific abusers
Are removed from leadership

So more must be said
On my decades of being abused by
an entire “LGBTQIA COMMUNITY”
but if you think I’d drop
my #GayMafia and #BiIlluminati files
In anything but a Presidential election year?
You gonna make me laugh hard on that one.
In the mean if you make $50
A month or year On bi pride flags
For anything that is for bi community
That’s again what the flag was made for

Will I ever speak again
With the majority white bi leaders
Who everyone should know
100% hate trans and pans
And basically anyone
who won’t sleep with them?
Probably not, and haven't yet
Praise God I did a #walkaway!

And when I got right, I took my work with me
Not that you’d notice with how many Bis
still using my name in their research papers
Not that you’d know since they misrepresented
My 20+ years of work as their own
Although, now that I’ve left?
Perhaps it’s becoming even more clear
how very much I did

Getting up from the left table
where peoples tweet charges
Mean more than actual Black lives
Means I ain’t had a fight about labels since!
And ultimately I won…because I lived

I’ll continue on without people
Who thought I enjoyed their abuse
Their intolerance and hate
Who ghosted me and then went
Hey that’s a good storyline for a tv show!

God will teach you lessons
and I’m grateful for mine
Instead of donating money and time
I live my life without your dog walking calls
I live without you talking terrible
about me in the same White House room
Only to have my true friends report back
Every word you said about me

I survived decades And now urge others
to leave before it kills them too
How sad that it’s taken so many from us
These communities who promote
Toxic hate covered up with a #LoveWins

I want to be clear
I am still 100% pissed
But I have tried To explain
I would absolutely
100% do that same tweet again
Perhaps even 10,000% times
If it meant my sweet peace now
And my safety from sexual harassment
And from the most bitter taste
Of watching bi people die defeated
While I just post health memes

Plot twist: when insane bi abusers
run countless groups worldwide,
bi mental health gonna
keep making headlines.
So you now done been warned:
Faith Cheltenham, X lives
And I’m thoughtfully working
to hasten the demise of abuse in
LGBTQIA communities

I’m preparing files and supporting
Those who truly care for liberty and freedom
Or the complete opposite of the DNC LGBT
Or wasn’t I at the last gala with LGBT media
And not allowed to touch a drink or any food
Set aside only for those that matter
which you may be beginning to realize
Is starting to be more and more these
Straight parents of LGBT kids
far more than any of us,
because, of course, who got that money
has always mattered Most
in the lgbt politic

I don’t got that money now
As a divorced intersex single parent
And every cent I should have saved
Got sent to bi people who went and
Signed their name calling me a user
So I hope you learn from my mistake
Give nothing to those who give nothing back

A whole bunch of volunteers could walk
Stop sharing and posting content for free
for bi doctors and LGBT Professionals
making millions a year to study bi health
without any change
beyond things getting worse

A whole bunch of people
Might find acceptance for bi+people
Is higher, much in fact,
in the straight world
And all that hate
from gays and lesbians,
is something we might just ignore
for the very many People who love us

But Staying in apps you ain’t wanted
Isn’t the same thing
as being denied a job,
Or not having housing,
or being beat,
But you keep talking about
things that don’t matter and
Them things won’t change

I’ll admit it freely, any chance
To be less associated with such failure
Was a chance I jumped at and ran with
Because the work wasn’t yours,
and neither am I
I entirely reject any assertion
That I personally sought fiscal benefit
From any Bi copyright
Beyond my own original works
But People can call me
flag stealer
Any day,
for which I thank God

Got rid of me, and good
Since I was trying for an exit
From dishonest researchers
Bi nude play dates near kids in parks
And all them Black bis closeted

By being massacred I let my pieces
Fall back into who I am actually Am
The one who first didn’t believe
And now really don’t because
I’ve got decades of proof
and I shout it from the rooftops
that liberals are often lying right to you,
Just like they lied about me

So yeah I’d do it again,
And any confidence that Left had of mine?
Shattered with those petitions,
Them tweets and people burning our cities
I will fight a lifetime to champion against harm
And pledge myself as the
Earth's least mightiest defender
Cause if I can get that much publicity
with 1 tweet?

I have more to do to change this world.

#songsinthekeyofx

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