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For loss like this, I have no point of reference.
I am undone.
Grief overwhelms every defence,
like bile in the throat
or blood in a lung
.
as raw tongues fumble the crumbling vellum of liturgy,
such prayers prayed in parallel
with those in need
and those afraid
and those who wish us dead as well.
.
The opposite of Pride is shame.
You leach-bleached Stonewall,
turned its colours lone-wolf white
as the gunman wasn’t:
now you name
.
him terrorist, and act as if
the circle of his bullets stretched
to menace anyone who retched
like he did, when he saw men kiss.
.
(Your hate patrols bathrooms.
Mister or miss? We’ll tick a box and bring ID,
and if you ever catch on fire
we’ll formally decline to piss.)
.
And meanwhile, you plant bombs in Kmart,
argue it’s an hour of need
as though such shrapnel as stops a heart
is only an incidental wrong; as though there’s ever room to plead
we didn’t want you dead, just gone.
.
You’d rather mourn and see us shrived
than let us help or live our lives.
The same blood shed is blood refused.
But what you fear is not our blood
and cannot be transfused.
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