Poetry
Got Milk?
by David Ortmann
Originally published in Glide Memorial Methodist Church's publication Poetry for the People II, 2001
Published again by the International Library of Poetry in The Light of Love, 2002 & Eternal Portraits, 2005
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1978
San Francisco City Hall
double shooting
thrice
and justice blindfold weeping.
Tell me son
will that Hostess Twinkee ever taste the same?
Soldiers try
to force us back
with tear gas
like tanks in Tiananmen
as we cross candlelight and vigil.
It's our first
Molotov cocktail party.
1996
San Francisco Castro District.
The lady sews and reaps her wayward seeds
and flowers grow strong on Market Street.
and they still sell you cameras
and they still sell you Twinkees
and they're still selling you Milk.
for Harvey Milk
San Francisco
2001