Sonnet Rant: I Am Somewhat Disappointed In The Great State Of California This Afternoon

It's possible that I was in denial.

I thought for sure that Proposition 8

Would soon be headed for that growing file

Of stupid laws we laugh at and berate

Our ancestors for having on their books:

Like banning public bowling, or the play

of dominoes on Sunday, but it looks

As though in California, if you're gay,

You'd better have already tied the knot

With your sweetheart. And if you've yet to find

The right one, plan to elope to Vermont.

They used to say that Iowa's behind

The times, but now the Golden State would seem

To have gone back to the first age of steam.

Though The Fact It Got This Far Is Rather Detestable...

Our Rancheslature made me somewhat proud
This week by choosing not to pass along
A spiteful measure that would have allowed
Our state to be a party to a wrong.
Amend our constitution, just to say
That even if one goes to other states
To marry, if one happens to be gay,
Wyoming will say pooh, you are not mates?
It's Cowboy but it's not Equality,
And would have covered all of us in shame.
I speak not just of the publicity,
But also of the hate it would proclaim.
And though I do have neighbors who'd vote in
This measure; I say so to my chagrin.