For one whole day they
Turned off the internet
And encouraged people
To recall how they met.
A camel trek in Egypt,
By the Tower of Pisa,
A casual chat beside
A supermarket freezer.
Was it just coincidence
On his way to Radio Shack
He met his future partner
Out to buy a Big Mac.
Marching together to
Celebrate Gay Pride,
An eventful encounter
That prevented a suicide.
Long before they realised
Twenty four hours was gone
And the Big Fat Controller
Turned the internet back on.
There was optimism some
New relationships would last
And a slight rise in birthrate
Was confidently forecast.
An exercise in cynicism
To test the whole nation
For its vulnerability to mass
Suggestion and manipulation
The makers of the algorithms
Used the experience as a whole
To refine and extend the means
And bounds of their control.
Montague mouse wants to purchase a hat
“Why do you need that,” asked milliner cat
Montague replied, “It’s so that I can marry”
I must wear a nice hat for when I wed Barry”
“Barry told me that he won’t leave the house
If I don’t wear a titfer,” said Montague mouse
So please create a rainbow hat – it mustn’t be grey
And I’ll wear it with gay pride on our wedding day!
The wedding hat’s embellished with feathers of pink
An apple, an orange and trimmed with soft lilac mink!
We had Gumby
and Pokey,
And Sanford & Son.
We had Mark Spitz,
And Monty Python.
We had Lenny Bruce,
And Chips.
We had the Sex Pistols,
And A Ballroom Blitz.
We had Martin Scorsese,
And Happy Days.
We had the
Stepford Wives,
And Roe VS Wade.
We had What's up Doc,
and the Rockford files.
We had Gay Pride Parade,
and I can see for miles.
We had Women's Lib,
And Emergency.
We had One Flew Over
The Cuckoo's Nest,
And Mohamed Ali.
We had A Star is Born,
And little Chinatown.
We had Jesus
Christ Superstar,
And Foxy Brown.
We had the VCR
And Adam-12.
We had White Lightning,
and Josey Wales.
We had the Gay
Rights movement,
And Dragnet.
We had the Deer Hunter,
and Stanley Kubrick.
We had the Iran hostage crisis,
and a Six-million-dollar man.
We had Carnal Knowledge,
And The Stand.
We had the
Mississippi Queen
And Tony Orlando.
We had Abba singing
about Fernando.
We had Mick Jagger,
And John Wayne.
We had Rare Earth,
And Fire and Rain.
Turbo1904 ?
Were it in Haifa, one could understand
or Tel Aviv by the shoreline, let ‘em pound sand
But in Holy Jerusalem, a ‘gay pride parade’ ~
one is forced to conclude, there’s nothing sacred
Sodomites
Ezekiel 16:49
Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters were arrogant, over fed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
That day you seraphs passed the gate
You heralded an uncreate
You had been told the ten to seek
For nine or less no mercy speak
Instead of going to the square
You yielded to four foreign there
Who chose a fertile valley then
From mountain streams to abject sin
But if you had you would have found
Five righteous ones there cruelly bound
Penetrated, stretched out straight
Their holy souls inviolate
The victims of both young and old
Abused by those whose hearts were cold
To innocence and love once near
Then limited to five born *****
Who refused to enjoin the rest
In malice soaked with violence
And disregard for those in need
Their consciences did no more heed
The cries of those whose lights went dim
So at high noon came heaven’s brim
Five bodies freed from spirits’ flight
There left to burn with Sodomites
Gay, Pride Before Destruction
Need Saxon savages in a Godless world?
The pagans pervert God's Word, to right their sin.
Their judgment is their proud vanity un-furled?
Their colors diverge from white; see out, not in?
Church leaders whoring God's Word to fill their pews!
Their demise is judgment, leaving mercy out!
Flare their wings of white and gold; they ignore what's true!
Priests edit Holy Word, righteousness they tout!
Pride's weakness leads to our destruction, our fall.
We must be on bended knee; to Him must crawl.
Christ is Lord; he is king of kings and rules all!
Who are we to alter provisions for all?
You suffer now, so you scream; like we all yell?
You, think your pain is so great!? Welcome to hell.
by Martin Braun
3/16/2020
Temblando al borde de la locura
Tratando de encontrar un centro de gravedad
Cortando mi circulación para hacer esta declaración
sobre mi habilidad natural como reina nacida
a caminar con tanta fabulosidad.
Aunque este vestido es una monstruosidad,
mi cabello es una curiosidad,
hay mucho acerca de este alto paso que no anticipé.
Por ejemplo cómo el balanceo de mis caderas
contrarresta el movimiento de mis dedos.
¿Quién sabía que habría tal orquestación?
Un cuerpo en concierto: ¡una ovación de pie!
Y cada paso otro encore,
Gritando delirantemente: "¡Más! ¡Más! ¡Más!"
Y de repente, el mundo es nuevo.
Nunca lo he visto desde este punto de vista.
Me sorprende la diferencia que unas pulgadas pueden hacer
para cambiar la realidad que ahora crea yo
Y aunque mis pies están apretados como tocones
en estas bombas de tacón de aguja de seis pulgadas,
un testimonio que debo profesar;
Qué maravilloso es ser
un muchacho en un vestido.
Rainbow colors, everywhere
Confederate flags, few
Whatever causes people to stare
Is what our generation will do
What is my opinion, you ask
The concept is unreal
I have trouble to grasp
It is most definitely a sin
Not opinion, yet fact
Not patience running thin
Or involve class or tact
Hell, do what you want
Not mine, but God's creation
My dreams you won't haunt
It's your own damnation
But don't use the good book
When you get married
Or swear to God
By the offense you've carried
No fingers pointed
Not holding a grudge
I wasn't anointed
Or covered in blood
I make my own mistakes
Beneath the table
Caused my own heartaches
Who am I to label
But do I agree
With making sin official
I do not, you see
I will not initial
You won't catch me, Attending gay pride
I won't be a face in the bunch
This roller coaster is a dangerous ride
The Devil is seeking his lunch
Marooned
By Elton Camp
Meg & Mae’s ship went down
Only those two didn’t drown
They made it to a desert isle
No inhabitants--what a trial
It was alone they had to live
Not a man, their love to give
For years the two lived there
Though seaward they did stare
A ship on the horizon appeared
Meg and Mae both wildly cheered
Joy to sorrow too quickly turned
When the vessel suddenly burned
Before, to the depths, it went down
A young man, a life preserver found
He came floating toward their shore
The girls began to cheer as before
Just as they were getting ready to flirt
They noticed the words on his shirt
This, on his pink shirt, is what they spied
In large letters was emblazoned, Gay Pride
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