No apologies, no signs, headlines, picket lines
Rainbows by design, it’s not all black and white
No applause, no reply, my calls unjustified
I don’t need it, I won’t cry, I’ve done that a thousand times
No trial, no crime, how could I be minimized? Limited, now vilified, militant, belligerent
No telling of both sides, you vote pride but there's no pride
My love, my life, the franchise
No outrage on center stage, no spotlight, no page
No pats on the back telling me you relate
Where’s my free gift bag? Our commercials of acceptance? Where’s my flag? Your multi-colored necklace?
No wink, no smirk, no hot pink t-shirt
No more acknowledgment during the meetings at work
They took my special seating at church
No more school assignments no reading research
No orange, yellow, blue, red, pink, green, desserts
Where’s the super, oober bi-curious flirt?
Where’s the hashtags and the merch?
Where’s the backlash from the hurt?
The funds, clubs, the perks?
I don’t need it, they never worked
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Shelbi Billingslea
Just found out last year that I’m a writer. Though, all I’ve ever done is write.
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Mr. Grim
“The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. Mr. Grim had returned. The local serial killer who’d been missing in obscurity for almost seven peaceful years was back in his wretched childhood home, among these very woods. The towns people coined him Mr. Grim because like the Grim Reaper, once he sees you, you’re dead. He’d brutally butcher, bludgeon, pound or strangle anyone he so laid his eyes on; improvising his instruments of death based upon mere convenience. They say his father was an abusive alcoholic who would make him undress and beat him bloody with a switch, then lock him out of the house, forcing him to sleep in the frigid cold fields, here, just yonder. His mother was a schizophrenic who never uttered a single word, not even to defend her son when his cries filled the cabin, the thoughtless lashes ripping through his skin, piercing through his heart.
By Shelbi Billingslea 4 years ago in Horror
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