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So where are the strong and who are the trusted?

“(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding,” Elvis Costello

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Aunt Celia, your sister, is gay.
Don’t you even care about her

Over and over this same plea
Lies had claimed her father

Fear had erased something important
Hate had left him unrecognizable

I have it right here tapping his smart phone
This will show you, this will

Love you, Dad, but I just can’t
Endings are never fairy tales

Right here, I have it right here

—P.L. Thomas