The Curb

Population 5,000

That's what the sign says when you drive through my town

They say one out of every ten people is gay

That makes for 500 here

Which ones are they?

I think I have a pretty good idea

In the deli I heard the other boys taunting him

Faggot!

Do you know him?

I heard they stripped him in the locker room

That is not all they stripped of him

His pride

His dignity

Any self worth that he had ended up in the locker

Where they pushed him into

Day after day after day

He never made it to graduation

Not even through the tenth grade

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