For Mathew Shepard

Oh you fearful wyrms!
Who, stalking in the night
With bat and barbedwire seductions
Prove your manhood with hate
And hunt your peculiar prey.
I wish upon you an inverti March
That the lamb you stalk
Turn on you a lion
Rend you to your bigoted bones
And sow from your teeth
A nation of Georges
Your brethren to reap.

3/26/02