Shooting Straight
Posted by Justin Reilly | Filed under '09 Spring: Dream of a Ridiculous Man, Poetry, Print, Show Poems
So I’m straight
Everyone here knows I date black girls
I eat red meat
Play basketball
And never talk about balls unless I am referring to the ones I put in the basket
Oh and when I am playing that game where u get other guys to look at ur balls
Then make them bend over and u kick them in the ass and call em fag
You know the game everyone learned how to play from that movie Waiting
Yeah I am pretty much your typical straight kid
Oh but what’s with dudes looking at you when ur in the shower
That shits gay
And so is that shirt ‘your wearing’ (dude in the front row)
And those shoes josh has on
Them shits r str8 homo
Dear Straight men,
You don’t always have to run from hugs
They aren’t dream catchers of your masculinity
That slowly drain your manhood as you sleep
I promise
Your brothers arms are not sleeves to a straight jacket
That suffocate your unwillingness to be sensitive
You won’t wake up the next morning
Drowsy with a fragmented memory of emasculation and shame
And if you shed a tear
You won’t drown
one Sunday morning in an affinity
For blonde haired men and know Jude Law is the only man that really could steal your heart
And even if this was possible
Maybe just maybe
Your would understand
That love does not know gender
It does not know limits
It only knows heat
The sweltering breath exchanged by two lovers
That only emerges when 2 souls finally connect
Forget about everything
And lay naked
Just so their Prop 8 sanctioned wardrobe won’t get in the way
Stop calling things gay
Ignorance is not bliss
Or chanting no homo
After every Freudian slip
Just because you are too insecure to admit
That every time you get in the shower you are worried about whose bigger than you
Quit acting like men
are flirting with you when they ask you for the time
Straight women don’t want to get with you
What makes you think gay men are any different
Intolerance is unattractive
And those prejudicial handshakes aren’t getting you laid anytime soon
Dear gay men,
Stay strong
Stay hungry
Stay passionate
You see
I’ve got love
For love
Any man, man enough to fight for someone
He loves
knows that life
With all its beauty and splendor
Is worth nothing
If you have not found something to die for
And I know
The day will come
When you can just blend in
Walk hand in hand in the busiest of parks
And kiss at the perfect time when the sun is barely peeking through the trees
Hallmark will make anniversary cards with this image not just printed
But branded on the front cover
Next to the word Perfection
And I’ll smile
Because I know that the true meaning of equality
Is the ability to fail miserably like the majority
The freedom of my best friend to marry the wrong man
Forgo marriage counseling
Get a divorce
And have everyone giving him shit for not leaving him sooner
Not for marrying a man in the first place
Dear somewhere in the grey area men,
Take your time
Revel in the very idea the unknown
And keep ‘em guessing
Because you know as well as I do
Watching them scratch there heads as you pass
Is a humble victory in it self
And I hope when you do find love
You will shout at the top of your lungs
Fuck a closet
Stand on a roof top
Inhale the anticipation
And exhale the beauty
That on this day
They can’t touch you
Even though you and I both know
They have never be able to
And we’ll smile
Knowing this is just beginning of a struggle
but we will embrace it
etch LOVE on our knuckles
knowing that we will not go quietly
we will not go passively and if they can’t except that
we will brand their hearts with our fists
and then kiss their foreheads
to show them that tough love does still exist in our world
and we won’t give up on them
because a wise man once told me to turn the other cheek
let them know we have no problem taking their lashes
because
battle wounds are sexy
and these men hold no weight in our world
ill leave you with this
smile at their snares
and wave back at their bigotry
because at the end of the day
there is nothing more beautiful than an unaffected smile
on a lover at midday
when sun is perfectly set in the sky
and no one can else can touch you
but then again
you and I both know
they never could
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