directly across from the entrance
of the Heritage Foundation:
thank you for your service,
for reminding the conservatives
we are out & proud—
we are not going back without a fight.

I hope when they see you
dancing on your pole
It burns their retinas.

I hope when they see you
it frustrates them—
hurts their tender dispositions.

I hope when they see you
they scurry to silence their Grindr notifications.

You represent this gay city
free flowing & surviving tyrant winds.

You represent the best of us:
a metallic middle finger to fascism.