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The first item of the gay agenda is call the meeting to order
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We count for quorum and make sure th
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Jan 3, 2017
Can I Get a Prescription for That?
If being gay is a disease,
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Then I'm so sick
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That I'm coughing up rainbow phlegm
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Jan 3, 2017
Complications
It’s funny
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You broke my heart so badly I thought I would die.
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I came home from the hospital two
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Dec 17, 2017
Escape Velocity
I love looking at highways from airplanes,
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They snake across the blotchy, flat earth
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And slither
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Dec 17, 2017
It Happened Slowly-- In steps-- Until I Woke Up One Day This Winter and Thought to Myself, "Now, Where Has My Childhood Gone?"
My childhood was sunshine,
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summer days,
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pool,
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book,
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trees,
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It was yellow dandelion, carpet
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Mar 28, 2017
It Occurs to Me
It occurs to me that
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I used to fear the dark
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How odd to have known so much more of myself than o
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Jan 8, 2025
It’s fitting that I went to Michigan wine country because I am an expert at bottling things up.
Lying in the dark
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The sheets wet
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Skin stuck together like glue
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I remember what it feels like /
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Jul 16, 2025
I Wish I Could Be an Ezra Pound, But I Can Never Keep It Simple
They say write a poem in ten words,
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And I think that I can’t pour out my soul in such a small spac
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Dec 17, 2017
Laughter On a Starry Night
And it's graduation,
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I'm thinking "now or never",
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And you look at me
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Like this is it,
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And yo
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Jan 3, 2017
Lavender is for January
On snowstorm nights the lilac sky hangs in the balance,
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Lighter than the feather it rises up, up,
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Jan 23, 2017
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