poem of the day 07.03.15

the homophobe

back in the day

calvin was a homobphobe

which is like calling someone a nazi now

i had no clue what calvin’s opinions were on jews

but he didn’t like gay people, especially gay men

calvin had a playboy magazine idea about lesbians

of course this was back when people

still bought playboy to get off

but calvin was the annoying kind of homophobe

you couldn’t sit next to him in a theater

we took up a whole row just so that calvin didn’t look gay

if three of you went to get something to eat

calvin could never be the one who had to sit male with male

if he did, as soon as the third wheel got up to piss

calvin switched to the other side of the booth

so it didn’t look like two queers were having wings and beer together

once, an ex-girlfriend of mine told cal that he

and his friend, tom, made a cute looking couple

i heard about it for months after she said that

for sport i called him a fag in front of some girl he liked

just to see what would happen

and later on that night calvin pulled over his car

to tell me what a bad friend i was being

in atlantic city we shared a huge bed

and he slept on top of the sheets

just in case maybe i was gay

even though back home i was fucking this girl he liked

we aren’t friends anymore

not because of calvin’s homophobia

but because i made fun of his facebook page

for having on it all of this 9/11 we-will-never-forget bullshit on it

when it wasn’t even september

calvin told me he’d pray for me

and then deleted me as his facebook friend

he’s really religious these days from what i’ve been told

the kind of catholic who wishes his pederast priest

a happy father’s day

apparently he says shit like

hate the sin, love the sinner

when talking about gay marriage on his facebook page

he has three boys now

and he’s trying to bring them up the right way

sometimes i wonder if they’ll

grow up to be homophobes too

or maybe even gay

i hope not, for them, at least

but sometimes i wonder what it’s like

when calvin takes the boys to a movie

do they sit together like a family?

or are they old enough now that he makes them sit apart?

taking up a whole row in the theater like we used to do

so that they don’t all look gay

and give people the wrong impression about america

while being mindlessly entertained in the dark.