Right here you come once more
Twenty-three states banning drag, 100 payments being thought-about
Simply after I’m about to make it work with out you
F*** you GOP
You look into my eyes and lie these fairly lies
Abortion is settled legislation
Homosexual marriage is settled legislation
And fairly quickly I’m questioning how I got here to doubt you
No—actually how am I to ever belief you
To ever suppose you cared about folks over revenue
The one attain throughout the aisle you do is the one
that covers my mouth so I can’t communicate out
Effectively-
Right here you come once more and right here I’m going
These tune lyrics are by Dolly Parton who just lately stated,
“If I hadn’t been born a lady, I’d have been a drag queen.”
And I agree—I realized what I realized in regards to the sort of lady I needed to be
from drag queens
Fierce-femme-fire-breathing
Feminist
F*** you all
Yup—if I hadn’t been born a lady …I’d have been a drag queen
So…right here you come once more
And right here I’m going
To the protest
To the march
To social media
To letter writing
To every thing I understand how to do as a result of I’m sixty-seven
And have been an activist since I used to be fifteen
That’s fifty-years of strategizing,
Mobilizing, assembly, working, imagining, creating
To make an area for me and mine
We all know how to do that
So- right here you come once more
And right here I’m going
Get out of my face
As a result of, yeah, we’re right here, we’re queer
We’re not going procuring
We’re right here, we’re queer
Shouting our story
Right here we go once more
Right here we go once more
Right here we f***ing go once more
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Ain’t no stopping us now
–Marie Cartier
April 10, 2023
With due to the QueerWise https://www.queerwise.web/ efficiency and writing group