No apostle of the straight world
Who from their copy of the Gospel
Scribbled out ‘love our neighbour'
With up to two years of hard labour
Do you hear the bite inside a cyanide-laced apple?
They're the reason Turing died
Labour changed the law
In nineteen sixty-seven
But there remains a right
For the gay liberation fight
If you can't hold hands in the streets when
There's still the fear of being beaten
And dad kicked Lee out of the family house
No apostles of the straight world
Who from their copy of the Gospel
Scribbled out ‘love our neighbour'
With two years of scars, smeared by these school peers
Do you hear her reach for her dad's medicine cabinet?
Nineteen and provoked to overdose
On fifty paracetamol tablets