Thank you poem for going about your business like you should #1

gracias to

gay couple who hugs

hold hands caress

under a nice oak shade

were is cool

and warm enough

with lots of day light

and people

oh yeah! people

public people free to stare or disregard

but nevertheless

there!

in front of your gay love gay touch gay kiss

just love just touch just kiss

Aaah! kiss

defiant kiss illegal kiss right in the mouth

kiss

and gracias for the kiss

and the open palms

the rubbing on soft lower backs

gracias

for going about your business

like you should

and forgive me noticing you loving each other

loving each other like you do

mine is not a stare

but a look of respect

and I wonder

is this the first time you test the crowd

a motorcycle cop

or a religious righteous straight man

with a bible in his right hand?

is this the first time?

and forgive me noticing

you loving each other loving each other

like you do

but brave acts of love in a Prop. 22 world

in a “I’ll kick the shit out of you fag” world

should be noticed

and recorded

in snapshot poems

talked about in class or the AC bus

sang in the radio

taken photographs of

to hang at the bank

City Hall the White House right behind

the Oval desk

Oh yes! large black and white photographs of

open mouths

playful tongues

shut eyes

hands on heads

man-to-man

kisses

right behind the Oval desk

Ah! kisses kisses

manly kisses

under a nice oak shade

agustín palacios

poetaxingon.net

10.09.02

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