Troubles

There I was, lying nude in bed and looking at a mirror on the ceiling, and I discovered that I am a Negro, and I'm circumcised!

Quickly I jumped up, found my pants and looked in the pockets to find my drivers license photo, and it was that same color. Black.

I felt myself becoming very depressed, downcast, sitting in a chair.

But it's a wheelchair!!

That means, of course, that besides being black and Jewish, I'm also disabled!!!

I said to myself, aloud 'This is impossible. It's impossible that I should be black and Jewish and disabled.'

'It's the pure truth,' whispers someone from behind me.

I turn n around, and it's my Boyfriend.

Just what I needed!!!

I am a homosexual, and on top of that I have a Mexican boyfriend. Oh! No!..... Black, Jewish, disabled, gay, with a Mex ican boyfriend, drug-addicted, and HIV-positive!!!

Desperate, I begin to shout, cry, pull my hair -- and OH, noooooo...I'm Bald!!!

The telephone rings.

It's my brother.

He is saying, 'Since mom and dad died the only thing you do is hang out, take drugs, and lay around all day doing nothing. Get a job, you worthless piece of garbage... Any job.'

Mom?... Dad?... Nooooooooo... Now I'm also an unemployed orphan!

I try to explain to my brother how hard it is to find a job when you are black, Jewish, disabled, gay with a Mexican boyfriend, are a drug addict, HIV-positive, bald, and an orphan.

But he doesn't get it.

Frustrated, I hang up.

It's then that I realize I only have one hand!!!

With tears in my eyes I go to the window to look out.

I see I live in a shantytown full of cardboard and tin houses!

There is trash everywhere.

Suddenly I feel a sharp pain near my pacemaker.... Pacemaker?

Besides being black, Jewish, disabled, a fairy with a Mexican boyfriend, a drug addict, HIV-positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, an invalid with one hand and a bad heart, I live in a crappy neighborhood .

At that very moment my boyfriend approaches and says to me, 'Sweetiepie, my love, my little black heartthrob, have you decided who are you going to vote for in the primary -- Hilary or Obama???

Say it isn't so!!! I can handle being a black, disabled, one-armed, drug-addicted, Jewish queer on a pacemaker who is HIV-positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, living in a slum, and with a Mexican boyfriend, but please, oh, dear God, please don't tell me I'm a Democrat!!!...


Thank you,

Ronne Harrell