Now granting the fact
that expressions
of explicit homophobia
have only relatively recently
started to become "gauche"
in mainstream American opinion
and "gauche" means "left"
and Texas Governor Rick Perry
was just one in a line
of perfectly solid
and erudite conservative challengers
vying for President in 2012
maybe he really did think
that the case
for gay reparative therapy
because of its striking similarities
to rehab
for people with alcoholism
(how did Democrats
never notice this?)
was a compassionate and sensitive
topic on which to expound
in San Francisco.
He acknowledged
a bold-by-GOP-standards
fact that homosexuality
may have
a genetic component
leaving hope for the possibility
that his and others'
simultaneously self-serving
and self-defeating lifestyle
of petty and obstructionist
and downright harmful
Obama-one-upmanship
can one day be cured
(or at least
have its symptoms
kept in check).
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
