The Gay Stigmatized Ones
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In spirit they have abandoned them-left them lonely and alone
Even if they have not been driven as yet from their homes
Having endured cold indifference or cryptic taunts
As if so unique a difference warranted not a uniquely intelligent response
Other than to establish frowns and to inquire perhaps once
As if a child of this persuasion
Would have no occasion, left untaught
To bend life out of shape
To loot, to pillage, to rape
Reasoning of its glory
Like Bayard Rustin–Treated as if they can live no stories to tell
As if the uninstructed makes not its way to a jail
As if a courteous way if interacting need not be taught
And especially before the onslaught
Of a perpendicular difference
They (and not they alone) needing to learn how to interact
Around others who come from across the tracks
In sensual expression
Where a new cultural etiquette must come into being
To diffuse this cultural war we are seeing daily in our streets
Where these young gay ones are destined if left ostracized and politicized
Left to feel UN-needed, left to feel defeated, left to be troubled
Will thus become troublesome
The gay stigmatized ones
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