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Guest Poet: The Gay Marriage Poem
It’s time for another poem by TMV’s favorite poet, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet.
The Gay Marriage Poem
There’s something sacred about the union
Of a married man and wife,
Which is doubtless why such bondings
Rarely lead to household strife;
Were we ever to acknowledge
Other pairings with no cavil,
Then our present social order
Would most certainly unravel.
Everything would then unravel,
There would be wild dissolution;
There is only one solution,
To amend the constitution!
Nothing’s wrong with gay relations
If they’re hidden in a closet,
Then its kind of like a secret
And we needn’t go dislodge it;
But when they get conventional
And want a lawful wedding,
And speak of loving openly,
Where is this country heading?
A loving, open, gay relation
Requires prosecution;
There is only one solution,
To amend the constitution!
I’m not saying that the government
Play at discrimination,
Except in cases where the issue
In-volves fornication,
Or a woman’s ovulation,
Or preferred cohabitation,
Or on other matters sexual
On which I’ve a fixation.
In matters clearly sexual
We need a Fed intrusion;
There is only one solution,
To amend the constitution!
Copyright 2006 Michael Silverstein
5 Responses to “Guest Poet: The Gay Marriage Poem”
The whole federal Constitutional Amendment thing is interesting. I’d like to think that it would settle the issue; probably it wouldn’t. Why? Because even if the amendment were adopted, the protracted and years long push would be for its repeal.
Any lawyers out there? We now know that there are many states who have already amended their state constitutions to define marriage as between one man and one woman. For the sake of discussion, let’s assume that the Senate and House never approve the Amendment. Within a few years, as things are percolating now, this issue will come before the Supreme Court. It’s possible that the Supremes (with further conservative appointments by GWB) would affirm traditional marriage, and reject any other form. On the other hand, they might validate gay marriage. At that point, do the states that have this amendment in their constitutions have to take out an eraser and delete it? What are the legalities here?
From the article:
“In matters clearly sexual
We need a Fed intrusion;
There is only one solution,
To amend the constitution!”
Oh yes yes yes! Let’s ecourage amending every Constitutional article and amendemt so the cretin miscreants in the congress and executive branch can dictate every damned facet of our lives!
The major part of blame for what’s wrong in this nation is that for at least the last 40 years the mainstream U S citizen has been too damned lazy to get involved.
Only after an overtly, obviously corrupt president and congress emerge and flush the nation down into the sewer does the come almost too late Joe and Jane Citizen decide to have the guts to stand up and become involved in politics!
If people would keep their noses out of women’s pregnant vaginas, and other people’s bedrooms, and MIND THEIR OWN DARNED BUSINESS this nation would be much better off!
I personally think that gum chewers that stick their nasty germy gum under resturant tables are the most gross disgusting type of humanity walking…Do you think we need a constitutional amendment banning such and making it a federal crime?
Wake up folks before you find one of your own bad habits as a constitutional amendment and federal crime!
Eloquent wording and decent poetry, to bad it’s put to waste on bigotry. Amend the constitution? Seriously Bush has ignored 90% of what is on that Historic piece of paper stood for and wants to add things that are absolutely meaningless as to if have the mass populace in arms praising God for a good deed.
Rarely lead to household strife; your words here…. But if you don’t have household strife I’d like to say you’re the 1% the world is talking about that is supernormal. Man and Woman were mad for each other yes but that doesn’t in-doubly say there is rarely household strife. Seriously a relationship is a relationship some Good some not but peoples sex has nothing to do with it and everything to do with personalities.
I can say I think people who are Gay chose it ;( it’s my opinion) it’s a choice that they feel inside of who they are. Just like I enjoy Vanilla Ice-cream, what next when we deem Vanilla a drug just because other people may not? Let’s put an amendment against Vanilla eaters because it kills baby kittens. Comm’on!! This is bigotry at its finest.
Do I agree with being Gay? No but it’s not my life and I don’t live it, but who am I to trample on someone’s life that I have nothing to do with? Is it just because I disagree with the sin? This is (WAS) a FREE Country until every one decided like the Decider in chief to oppress what we don’t like in others and ignore what this great place had afforded us. You figure in a free country I would be able to live behind my fence how I wish while you live in yours without any hindrance just because you disagree with what I or the gays are doing.
Luckytomeetme you said:
You figure in a free country I would be able to live behind my fence how I wish while you live in yours without any hindrance just because you disagree with what I or the gays are doing.
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You don’t have to believe me about what I’m going to say…just look it up in the Fort Worth Star Telegram newspaper morgue.
In 2004 both on T V and in the newspaper, Fort Worth City mayor and council… publically encouraged Fort Worth citizens to rat out on any neighbor they have that had a car sitting in their yard for any length of time with out it being moved, and report any neighbor that had an unmowed lawn.
I can and did think of at least a dozen reasons why either of these things may be seen in a neighbors yarde.
Can’t afford to fix the car. Grass not mowed because of a long vacation, illness, no money for lawnmower gas, can’t aford to hire mowing done because their job went to India or Mexico are among those few.
Welcome to the United Police States of America.
Since half of the people commenting on this thread were absent from school the day they covered irony and satire, here’s that clue you’ve been looking for. The poem isn’t supporting the marriage amendment.
“No Child Left Behind,” my ass.