Peep Show

By

Dennis Milam Bensie

 

Love enters, unasked.

 

On a hazy Sunday afternoon

The side garden was packed with watchful family and friends

Bearing flowers, cake, and punch.

 

A wedding,

Not too showy

But triumphant,

A sense of relief and pride,

 

The gallant pair,

Hot and flushed,

Stand hand in hand

On a little platform at the foot of a tree.

 

There is no preacher.

 

The two handsome men get tangled up in their love-talk,

Then they kiss with gaiety.

 

Husband and husband

Are jubilant.

 

At last, queer rights.

Two men can marry

And settle down

Despite the sex.

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