Andrew This surely is the etc of poetryetc! where poets express their
concerns worries cares troubles and share
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 15 June 2012 12:19
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Subject: Re: more gay marriage in Australia and our PM
This is 'poetry etc' - Political statements are for facebook or some other
social network.
Andrew
On 15 June 2012 17:51, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I am pissed off!
>
> Has it been considered that our PM is opposed to marriage because she
> is opposed to the institution of marriage? This is not a boring
> liberal question of equality. I do not wish or want equality with the
> institution of heterosexual marriage as the exchange of women, full stop.
>
> I have lived with a women in a committed emotional relationship, as a
> gay man. She slept with other women and men as she chose in her own
> bedroom, just as I had sex with other men in my own bedroom. There was
> a slight problem when one of her male overnighters used my razor blade
> and this raised the risk of him getting AIDS from me. However, as it
> happens, he was an editor and writer of a prominent gay magazine prior
> to his present job, so he knew better. (Being gay it is assumed I have
> AIDS, or might
> have...)
>
> So what is the big deal about our Aust PM living with a supposed gay
> hairdresser, in a committed relationship? If gay marriage is the be
> all and end all of gay equal rights... then perhaps now I should take
> an overdose of the pills my doctor prescribed for me! Or given the
> dermatitis and fungal infections invading my body... maybe AIDS will
> get me first! (Pills as a cure for AIDS is a cruel myth.)
>
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Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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