I, too, am greatly disheartened
by this country's official forms
of limiting the freedoms of many.
Of its symbolic
and its real bashing,
it's self-important otherings,
it's official-holier-than-thou-rhetoric
mask of religion,
its legal courses and actions
intending to sanction the freedoms
and benefits for many in many ways,
and now today, in Bush blocking freedoms
and the life-giving, necessary benefits
of marriage for same-sex partners.


Chris Murray - texfiles