Definitions

Thu, 02/01/2018 - 14:20 -- healbri

Definitions

Faggot

Noun

A bundle of sticks or twigs bound together as fuel.

Noun

 

American, informal,  offensive.

A male homosexual see usage at queer.

Tranny

Noun

Informal.

A transvestite.

Queer

Adjective.

Strange; odd

Informal, often offensive especially of a man homosexual.

 

Faggot

Noun

Last heard today in my sophomore English class

Black veil brides is a bunch of faggots.

 

How about we don’t use that word.

 

Why not, they’re all a bunch of faggots.

 

I shut up.

 

Tranny

Noun

Last heard by my friend

Too skinny today to fit into boys jeans.

Out shopping with their dad hears from a girl in the aisle

It must be another one of those tranny freaks.

 

Queer

Adjective

I’d never heard it as offensive in the schoolyard or at home.

But that’s cause I grew up in a different generation.
Where the kids sting us with

Homo

Where the kids sting us with

Fag

Where the kids sting us with tranny as we’re shopping with our dad.

Where they take away our rainbow so that they can see the light.

They cover us with darkness

Clip our wings so we can’t fight.

 

They cover our eyes and they string ropes around our necks.

They string us way up high

And they call it

Suicide.

But how can it be suicide when they’re the ones who are standing by

Telling us

I bet that you won’t do it.

 

They take away our rainbow

Say How come there’s no straight pride

We say

Why should you be proud if you didn’t have to fight.

To use the public restroom or to bring your date to prom.

To fight for your acceptance from your father or your mom.

You’re not cast out of your churches.

You’re not told that you’re unloved.

You’re not told that you’re just different.

That this phase will soon be gone.

You’re not told that you’re not valid

You’re not cast out of your houses

You’re not hated by the people who you haven’t even met.

 

Because sticks

And stones

May break

Your bones.

But

Words

Will always hurt you.

 

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