Skip to main content

Pledge, Allegiance

Gay, Fag, Queer

Happy, Lit, Awe'd

 

I wrote this language

    defined each syllable

        denoting each facsimile

Given credit, where credit's due

What's the cost of a life to you?

 

Stayed hidden, just long enough

    but never long enough

    but never soon enough

Out of the closet

Colorful, layered, mix-match matching

    studded, accessorized

Claire didn't haggle, gave you the bottom price

    looking like a hundred dimes

Slashing half off half price

Meier & Frank, those were the times

Walking out like the last season

    underpriced, overlooked, disregarded

Just like me, so I flaunted it

Identified with each garment you valued less

    because you lost your interest

Never good enough

    but Always Good Enough

High Quality, Durable, Built to Last

LeviStrong, Gold Digging, at the BIT, mining

    because I'm on my own

Followed the Oregon Trail, brought me,

    A Pan,

No free loading, road in, burning bridges

    I never intended to mend

    It's their Red Sea to cross, and

    I'm still here, pray'n for 'em

Gay, Fag, or Queer

I'm happy, I'm lit, I'm at the wheel

    steering it

Learned how to "ghost ride my whip"

    sometimes we don't have the cash

Still gotta to fill that tank

    on empty longer than I realized it

Running on fumes, forgot to gauge the trip

Faith - an inevitable part of this relationship

    a Trustfall, into the Abyss

 

"1,2,3,4 I won't take no anymore

  5,6,7,8 I want you to be my mate

  1,2,3,4 You're the one that I adore

  5,6,7,8 Don't run from me because this is fate."

 

Gay, Fag, Queer

    there are Stranger Things than this

In the darkness,

    Where the Wild Things Are

You'll find your best friend,

    a bond so strong, not periodic

    but, like discovering a new element

Self-respect, can't diminish it

    the space I take up,

I devoured you

    and just took a shit

    smelt like roses, Teen Spirit.

Buckle-up, it's time we discuss

    the reasons I hurt like this

You've denied us what once had been promised

    The Pursuits of Our Happiness

 

  1,2,3,4 We won't take No anymore

  This Nation, Under God, Indivisible

  You're the one that I adore

  Don't run from me, because this is fate

    Gay or Straight, it's Liberty and Justice for All

  5,6,'78

Comments