Straight? What?, Poetry by Rebecca E. Blanton

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Genre: Gay, Society

Straight? What?
by Rebecca E. Blanton

Original work, January 2015

Wait, what hon?
You’re straight?
What do you mean, straight?
Straightened your hair?
Got braces and fixed your teeth?
Straight up?
Straight outta Compton?
Wait, straight like the dicks you like?
Please be patient, this will take me a minute.
Do you remember when we met,
you had a dual BA in women’s studies and American history
from an East Coast women’s college?
You were writing a thesis about smashing
and how that helped define modern lesbianism.
You were beyond gold star.
You were queeeeeeeeeer.
You were a Lesbian Avenger
eating fire in front of the Capitol to protest its anti-gay policies.
You posted Avenger stickers with a bomb printed on them and
it delayed you top secret clearance.
You knew more than 200 words for pussy.
You were so anti-dick
you insisted on non-representational dildos.
Remember…

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