“Better to have a granddaughter who’s a whore than a grandson who is un pato faggot like you” —Richard Blanco, “Making a Man Out of Me,” Who’s Yer Daddy? Richard Blanco’s poem— That he read that cold January Day of the Inauguration Caught America by surprise Such a handsome Latino— Born in Miami after Castro’s Cuban Revolution and now All these years later But do things get better— Does the abuse & bullying Ever stop for our young gays Exiling them to the Closet? Did our Stonewall Riots— And our Gay Revolution Ever trickle down to the Young exiles of today? So much homophobia— Intergenerational warfare Like Blanco’s prejudicial Cuban grandmother Guilting the young poet— For being effeminate and Gay back when he was Just seven years old Philip Larkin knew it— In his “This Be The Verse” How they fuck you up, your Parents and your peer group They mean to, they want to— They fill you with the faults They had and add some extra Especially just for you Perhaps the only solution— Letting the older generation Finally kick the fucking bucket Let Whitman back in town.
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