Lewis Raynes Poet Quatrain

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I just watched Hannah Gadsby perform Nannette at Sydney Opera House, and her message is so super blunt and super real from herself and on behalf of other minorities.... isolation and bigotry directed toward people... any people, is never ok. I hope this poem shows at least a fraction of the message she embodied.

Misogynist Homophobic People Need To Stop

She stands invisible to any fair go, 
Mentally bashed to a paste,
In a world where she is not wanted, 
Where she is simply erased,

Where none of her self is accepted by men, 
Women distrust her as well,
Where she is politely told to vanish, 
To crawl back into her shell,

She’s been beaten and bashed and raped by angry, 
Pushed to the fork in the road,
This academically gifted heart beating girl, 
Has been pushed right out to the cold,

She believes what folks whisper about her, 
She believes the things that they say,
She believes she doesn’t fit into this world, 
That she’s defective because she is gay.

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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart July 6, 2018 at 7:43 AM A puddle. No more like a spring fed pond of tears reading this one Lewis. I watched Nanette last week. Damn, dehydrating write. A fave xo

Lyric Man July 6, 2018 at 1:29 AM Hi Lewis.. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your well crafted write this evening. I always appreciate the giftings of a pen in the hand of a poet!