Outside the Box

I AM...

Southern,
big and burly,

free-thinking,
a comic book and sci-fi geek,

more cerebral than physical,
somewhat learned (but no common sense,)
obsessive and compulsive,
depressive,
righteous,
good-intentioned,
a mystery-solver,
a deep thinker,
intuitive,
a movie buff,
a sexual dynamo,
a lover of all cuisines,
eternally searching,
an aficionado of foreplay,
musically inclined --but all thumbs,
coping with arrested development,
drawn to cons and ne'er-do-wells,
rage-filled and passionate, a civil rights warrior,
an animal lover,
emotional,
an artist,
a writer,
gardener,
poet,
a son-- four times over,

100% homosexual,
a survivor,
and a man.

But...

I am not

a label.

Nor am I limited to

the ones you might apply

to me.

I am

the sum of all my parts,

and none of my parts will be

dismissed or regulated.

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