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Elegy For Justin Fashanu
I mourn your passing, Justin Fashanu:
what our society had done to you
by haters should be punished and reviled.
You suffered what, in past time, Oscar Wilde,
endured. And to the prejudiced I say:
what business of yours was it, anyway?
Their persecution---cruel, uncouth, and snide---
compelled you, Justin, to your suicide:
that sort of crass, prejudiced cruelty
bespeaks the worst parts of humanity.
Starward
