Balls

It’s not easy being different

In this world. I suppose

It never really has been.

Specifically for a shy little

Gay boy buckled in the rural

South who didn’t have the

Balls the drag queens did.

Cracked

Balancing on eggshells

shattered my confidence

because I always heard

the cracks.

War spills

Like a sloppy drunk

Obviously oblivious

To who’s getting

fucked.