Ha, first sex or first radicalization?
also sounds like a beginning (or near)
Doug
On 2013-02-23, at 12:57 AM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I really cannot remember if this has been posted... it is another draft poem from the Barbecue verse novel... at least I am as far as accepting this is another verse novel...
>
> FIRST SEX
>
> 12th birthday/ when first I experiment
> a way born into living/ having fun
> not lifestyle choosing but innate where I am
> so I tell you/ this is the way it is going to be
> now handle this/ again your only choice
> to be already chosen/ if a few
> just three chosen ones/ will make a triplet
> without now concepting straight against gay
> in days of liberation/ is to be
> politics champion/ identity
> and this is where it is happening
> and after what is coming to be said
> we march on the streets/ angry defiant
> all illegal charges are dropped in court
> and this/ was a way the marching went
> on days of demanding/ our human rights
>
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