harvey milk
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Dear Harvey Milk,
The "Milk"y Way
Each day he woke and mourned,
and underlying consistent struggle,
of not wanting to be who he was born,
a lifelong internal trouble.
The silence before a victory in equality parallels the silence after:
it is alighted by those who barter their carved flesh for candle wax,
Set afire for an enduring thread.
A strand that interweaves the disgraces of the
