And I await a Chris poem on this matter of marriage per se,as unwelcome on the whole…?
I will get to a lot of the snaps etc, but not for awhile,off in the mountains as I am at the moment…
Doug
On 2012-06-15, at 5:36 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Andrew This surely is the etc of poetryetc! where poets express their
> concerns worries cares troubles and share
> P concerned
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Andrew Burke
> Sent: 15 June 2012 12:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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.)
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
Douglas Barbour
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Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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