SAY IT ISN"T SO!!!!

One Night I Found Myself

In a nightmare I found myself nude in bed

looking at a mirror on the ceiling. I saw I

was a circumcised Negro.

I quickly sat up, found my pants and looked

for my drivers license photo. I was the same

color - black. I was sitting in a chair very

depressed, downcast.

But it is a wheelchair.

Of course that means besides being black

and Jewish I am also disabled. I said aloud:

This is impossible. Impossible that I should

be black, Jewish and disabled.

'It Is The Pure Holy Truth' whispers someone

behind me.

I turn around. It is my boyfriend.

Just what I needed. I am homosexual and

on top of that have a Mexican boyfriend.

Oh my God. Black, Jewish, disabled, gay,

a Mexican boyfriend, and I am an HIV

positive drug addict.

Desperate I begin to shout, cry, pull my

hair. Oh no. I am bald.

The telephone rings. It is my brother.

He is saying: Since mom and dad died

the only thing you do is hang out, do drugs

and laze around all day doing nothing. Get

a job you worthless piece of crap. Any job.

Mom. Dad. No. No. Now I am also an out

of work 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,

and a drug addict, HIV positive, bald and

an orphan. But he does not get it.

Frustrated, I hang up. It is then I realize

I have only one hand. With tears in my

eyes I go to the window to look out. I see

I live in a shanty town 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 slum neighborhood.

At that moment my boyfriend approaches

and says.

Sweetie pie, my love, my little black heart

throb, have you decided what you are going

to wear to Washington to see Obama?

Say it is not so. I can handle being a black

disabled, one armed, drug addicted, Jewish

homosexual on a pacemaker who is bald,

HIV positive, orphaned, unemployed, lives

in a slum and has a Mexican boyfriend.

But please.

Oh dear God please tell me I am not a

Democrat.