Sex
Jabbing his finger in my face
‘there’s no such thing as a gay Christian’
Mocks with a limp wrested gesture
and a side long sneer at my reply,
‘there’s no such thing as a homophobic one either.’
Right to life
‘There’s no such thing as a good Muslim,’ he asserted.
‘I wouldn’t vote Liberal, they legalised abortion.’
‘But they were the only ones to oppose the war in Iraq,’ I argue
‘Over a million innocent civilians have died’
‘I’m not bothered about that’
spills from the overflow of his heart.
Deirdre McGarry