The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Invisible Man

    By Dennie Briggs on Fri, 12/10/2010 - 2:57pm |

     

    In living rooms and public places, 

    In street and square, in church, 

    You may freely come and go-- 

    Stroll, loiter and pray, 

    Just as long as you behave 

    Just as long as you remain 

    A presence to yourself alone. 

    Reasonable people all agree 

    The rule must be applied: 

    "Don't ask, don't tell," 

    Don't advertise. Be invisible! 

    Oh, be invisible when you walk 

    among us. 

    Don't stand out. 

    Don't give us cause to notice you. 

    Don't ask us to approve: 

    if you must love, don't let it show; 

    live, but do not let us know. 

    Be like us in every way: 

    Pale and male and gray. 

    Oh, be invisible! 

     

    John Michael Maher

     

    Comments

    McCain has become of the symbol of the lying traitor in all of this, but there are soooooooooo many.

    I was never an advocate for gay rights, but these bastards have got me so damn mad.

    Now I will be. Leave alone, let alone...

    Screw that, these people are the same people who call government subsidies reparations as long as we are not speaking of the corporate structure that receives 90% of the subsidies.

    There is no rational basis for these anti-gay antics. It is so hypocritical, so irrational, and so degrading to people who are serving our armed forces today and yesterday.

    Oh and take a look at the new poetry corner here.


    by Richard Day on Fri, 12/10/2010 - 4:54pm

    The good news is that the students now don't give a fig about any of it, and the American public really wanted DADT overturned.  I know that makes it almost harder, but now the courtw will be willing to overturn it, won't they?  Thanks for the poem.


    by we are stardust on Fri, 12/10/2010 - 6:03pm