It has been a busy week for the Supreme Court in the United States. We saw decisons on Affirmative Action (sort of) the Voting Rights Act, and Marriage Equality. I am coming to grips with the roller coaster of emotions. You might have noticed it in some of the recent writing like "Racism" and today's poem "Equality". Equality feels ufinished. It started out as a list and meter that did not rhyme but then I reordered it and rhymed the lines and tinkered with the meter. I am afraid it is feeling a little too sing-song but then perhaps that is appropriate since it is mostly celebratory. And perhaps, given the topic, it is just as well that it is not quite finished even as far along as we have come. Let me know what you think?
Equality
Tuxedos ,
flowers,
I do. and,
I’d do it again.
Puckered lip
kisses,
white
satin dresses,
festooned celebration.
Electrifying
music,
floral
khakis,
heck
anything that’s you.
A circle of
dear ones
a trip to
cancun
Party pics
at the zoo.
Justice of
the peace,
lasagna,
broom
jumping,
in the rain.
Fondant and
chuppahs
Signed.
I do, all
over again.
Towards
lives loved together
not simply how we are taxed
injustice
and shame when they ushered me out
as your grip
on the world relaxed.
No, in the
end I rejoice. They begin to see
All anyone
ever wanted was.
Equality.
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