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This is the writing journal of rightangles, formerly mm511 of LiveJournal.

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Billboard
Matthew Shepard, 1998

SHOOT A GAY OR TWO, the graffiti'd sign
spoke as they drop to school in '93.
In five years, at the Fireside Bar, the men
wandering aimless, two erratic sheep,
got lucky when they met a lonely son,
a Shepard boy. They talked a bit
about love and the weather, the meeting Matt had come
from, before the sheep ushered the shepherd out
the door and into a pick-up truck. The boy
didn't know their destination but
was happy to have found some friends, his joy
a prelude to the luck he found that night:
the boy left beaten, tied to picket bars,
eyes left open, staring at friendly stars.