"The Supremacy Pretension" by Robert Sayre

women's club, bible study, thrift store blues
home-maker, third wife, sorrowful hues

bridge club, tea party, d.a.r.,
fund-raiser, book club, fall bazaar

church-life, funerals, social butterfly,
pompous, out-dated, beholder's eye

'god's country,' no-man's-land, conundrum,
travel wide, never change, isolation

xenophobe, misanthrope, extremist faith,
big smile, duplicity, facile hate

manipulate, deceive, obfuscate,
syrupy, over-sell, compensate

covert, get along, good-ol'-boys,
misogyny, gay bash, religious joys

false witness, prejudice, justice ain't blind,
humble pie, charity, 'only my kind'

small pond/big fish delusion,
supremacy mind-set confusion

butt-crack heart attack, depending on the skin,
tweens display coochie while speaking on 'sin'

big trucks, no give-a-fucks, poverty,
red-state conflict, porn, STDS

birthing them babies, toeing that line,
demonized lower class, frivolous fine

cast 'em out, judgment, pious whore,
hypocrites, cock-suckers, pussy galore

old-timey, greasy-fried, die-a-bee-tees,
hush money, nepotism, family trees

con job, incest, keep things quiet,
gun play, bad cops, love of a race riot

yard dogs, porch monkey, jigaboo,
"Hillary's e-mails," light that fuse

burning crosses, hanging men, women in their place,
closet queers, down low, hide in disgrace

god's love, pretty pictures, lovely homes,
cutesy sayin's, preserves, strip that chrome

trash-talking, offense-taking, "what you say 'bout me?!?"
gossiping, bullshitting, lying through your teeth

no worries, Dream-killing, wasting away,
marking time, quicksand, keeping things the same

deep pride, never wrong, trailer park strut,
pollyanna, super-christian, secret slut

dixie flags, low standards, slow-talking drawl,
kids going hungry while you watch football

no worries, no skills, shitty personality,
'flash them titties' replaces hospitality

alcoholics, meth-heads, prescribed pills,
ailment obsession, old lady thrills

friendly front, simplicity, 'easy-as-pie,'
repressed, insincere, breathing them lies,
keeping up Appearances until you die 

Double standards are not 'Twice as Nice'

I'm overlooked for the 'cleansing process'

because my temple makes
the Weather Girls look like rail-thin waifs;
It's surely inclement climates after the ball
I have no cred in the not-so-gay
non-community, politicized with
Sizeist, ageist, racist, classist bastards.

Only a carbon copy, a clone of the me
I hope to be can aspire me to see
I'm worthy of the devotion never-found
Never-landing Peter Pan flying high, unsound
ricocheting insults and brandishing
bitchiness as shadows of assuredness
poor replacements for real common ground.

Self-hate looms large
in-and-out of the closet--
the down-low boys seek
the same 'sameness' as you,
so that the fret and threat of exposure
hangs over your fuck buddy's reality too,
cementing both in clustered shame and remorse
hope he's hung like a horse.