in the 80s
we used to walk past straight couples
holding hands & kissing on the street
& I would be raging inside
that we weren’t allowed to do the same

we could do it now I guess
in the big cities at least
without fear of being called faggots
or beaten to death with baseball bats
if we were still together

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