To be kind enough to have compassion on someone is to feel moved sorry because they are sick or have experienced misfortune. Can you tell me what misfortune has befallen queer people? - this is a real question, even though it is not a real poem Liz -----Original Message----- From: Joao Barros-Pereira/Toto Akeru [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 5:44 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: If Anything j << File: ATT00002.html >> Compassion To accept people lesbians and gays included as they are is not hatred nor bigotry and is if anything On 6 April 2001, Debbie Brown wrote: We already know you hate gays, why do you keep subjecting us to your racist and diagortory (sp) "poetry"? If you must subject us to it, why not try writing a real poem, one with thoughts and feelings, not hate and spew. FWIW Debbie On 25 Mar 2001, at 13:35, Joao Barros-Pereira/Toto Akeru wrote: > too mudh to swallow > > Some > women > > are > into > women > > and > some > men > > are > into > men > > I > accept > you > all > > but > don't > tell > me > > it is > normal > > > Homecoming > > there's > no place > > I'd > rather be > > a garden > a temple > > or > even > an > ice cream parlor > > than > inside > a > Japanese kimono > > with > my lover