a-queer-seminarian:

you tell me King James’ Bible
is the one true Bible, and that
it condemns me unequivocally.
but what do you know of King
James?

do you know he was like me?
do you know he had a passageway
connecting his chamber to his lover’s
do you know he said “David had
his Jonathon, and I have my George”
do you know that David was like me? that Jonathon was like
me?

and do you know, do you
understand that you
can never stomp out,
you can never ever quell
what is queer in the Body of
Christ

for that queerness sings from
every page of that book you and I both call good
and pumps through the blood of so
many breathing bodies
that I and our God call Good

and where you point at dry pages
and see only dry bones for me
God points and says look! these bones shall live!
So I live.

– a scrapped fragment from a poem i wrote for an assignment on biblical authority