Dawnland Testimony
...Honorable Members of the Mainiac Judiciary Committee
I hold gratitude for you, and for the Wabanaki Tribe of indigenous wisdom, on whose land we deeply listen for this opportunity to address this ...
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Categories:
homophobic, addiction, america, anti bullying,
Form: Political Verse
RightWing UnWoken
...It's not enough to say,
with however much great might,
America's Religious Right
is wrong
to flap fight wings
and even bite
against Earth's spirit natured Left.
All sacred EarthTribes
could...
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Categories:
homophobic, america, faith, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
A Cheap Pleonasm: Make America Great Again
...America has been GREAT, great for the last two centuries.
All right, America has been the greatest among all countries,
For a long time. MAGA is a cheap pleonasm, which just
Won the most contentio...
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Categories:
homophobic, africa, america, black african
Form: Rhyme
You Twins Have Never Looked Better
...You twins have never looked better, said with contention.
Fred and Ted, dressed in tutus, trying for attention.
Their mother was the only one slightly a teensy bit amused.
Their homophobic father ...
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Categories:
homophobic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
science lesson at the school disco
...
the music was pretty flat ~ but her sun shone in stereo that day
mono was never enough for me ~ double vision leads me astray
anyway i couldn't stop staring ~ inner man gave the game...
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Categories:
homophobic, 7th grade, growth, perspective,
Form: Monoku
Let My People Shine
...At sixteen
People's Bible Church
sent me from rural Michigan farm lands
to Moody Bible Institute
in siren-screaming Chicago
Church fathers assumed,
despite curious evidence to the contrary,
...
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Categories:
homophobic, health, integrity, muse, music,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
We Can Be a Light
...We Can Be A Light
Sal was sixteen when he committed suicide.
A loving son and brother.
You could count on Sal when you needed to talk and know it was confidential.
Sal was always there with a ...
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Categories:
homophobic, abuse, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Its Him Or No One At All
...I admit I look at pretty girls
Most I don’t think about after that
In that way I’m a straight man
But not a cis one
I could be a lesbian, I guess
But only in a way that would be frown upon
Beca...
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Categories:
homophobic, anxiety, best friend, boy,
Form: Free verse
John 3:16 Reviewed
...How can an omniscient,
not to mention
omnipotently patriarchal,
God
So love the world
that He gave us
StraightWhite Capitalist
Lord and Master
anthrosupremacists
So they could infest
...
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Categories:
homophobic, earth, earth day, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
I Hear He's a Winner
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"Bolsonaro's personal motto ... the truth will set you free "
John 8:32, Bible
his name is Jair Bolsonaro, born 1955
he was the 38th Pres...
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Categories:
homophobic, political,
Form: Political Verse
We Got a Crowd That's In a Frenzy Bob
...The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Chapter L.A.
I like to think of [the habit] as a bonfire or a lighthouse, so that light can shine out into places where there are no resources and there isn...
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Categories:
homophobic, anger, baseball, community, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Hanging On To Trauma
...There is this hypothesis
I unjustly
and perhaps traumatically
just made hard and patriarchally up
is not down
and retentatively not out
soon enough for healthy comings
and goings
A ridicu...
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Categories:
homophobic, culture, health, humor, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
I Hear He's a Winner
...Bolsonaro was president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023.
Former army officer and right-wing nationalist who revered Brazil's 1964–1985 military rule.
Jair Bolsonaro sought to arm a disarmed...
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Categories:
homophobic, analogy, bereavement, celebrity, international,
Form: Bio
The Issues of This World
...if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say nothing at all, they say.
every moment, every minute, every second of the day.
the silenced people can not tell wrong from right,
and when ...
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Categories:
homophobic, 8th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme
A-Wondering Why
...I've sat up nights
a-wondering why
I no longer hear the expression
'Here's mud in your eye'
It's not racist, sexist, or homophobic
not anti-semitic or islamophobic
Perhaps ...
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Categories:
homophobic, language, slam, sweet,
Form: Rhyme
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