America in extremis
Joe Hart
And I am as sick
Of heterosexual love songs
As blacks must have been
Of seeing whites on television
And nothing else
And nothing else.
And now in crisis
They fly their flags
And have prayer meetings,
These homophobes and racists and prigs.
And I want to scream.
But I say nothing.
And I wait
And I watch
For the one bomb to drop
That will silence their prayers
And extinguish their patriotism
And kill their gods
And end my hatred
Forever.