It Is Hard; and Conract Killers–a Sonnet Biquence
It’s hard to say if AIDS or gayness should
Be made to go away. If we kill AIDS,
The innocent will be protected: good
Women and kids could be saved by crusades
To wipe it out. Like Hitler we could try
To slaughter all the queers with slight, blotchy
Success. If we manage to crucify
Them all, no more future Liberace
Or Freddie Mercury would come our way;
No male Swan Lakes, or U.N. Hammarskjöld,
No other King James Bible (He was gay!),
Or Shakespeare in the literary fold.
(If you had read his sonnets, you would know.)
Perhaps it would be best to let them go.
Contract Killers
It’s hard to say if AIDS or gayness should
Be called the Plague. The virus now responds
To treatment and the news is that it could
Be cured some day—at least in hunky blonds.
We’re also told that Christ can cure a gay.
Allah is better at doing the trick.
He just has them stoned. They don’t go astray
After that. After that they’re never sick,
So which one can say is actually
The Plague? If both the illness and the men
Can be killed off, then contractually
The Christ and Allah constitute Plague then.
..But people must have an object of hate
….And prefer to snuff men who mate with mate.