Seeking,
single Christian male
for a respectable community,
no overnight visitors,
no loud music,
willing to keep the premises clean.
We don’t want nuh trouble here.
This is a respectable community.
The neighbours here get along.
There’s a lot of families in the complex. You can have animals.
Plant a garden.
Have small gatherings,
But not too loud.
Afterall,
You wouldn’t want to be a bother,
right?
Promise me there will be no fights. Remember not too loud,
there are a lot of families in the complex, you can have small gatherings,
a games night, maybe,
a glass of wine with your housemates, a few respectable colleagues,
friends, coworkers.
This is a respectable community.
Our existence,
a constant rift between being normal and absurd,
a choice to be,
a choice to live,
live wherever we want to and
not be bothered
because you’d rather be in the comfort of another man’s thighs;
you show up as you are unapologetically, you are queer,
and here.
Applied,
Rejected.
Applied,
Background checked, Rejected.
Does it matter what happens
in the privacy of my own home anymore? Is it your business who I invite for a night of pleasure?
Does it matter if I can pay the rent?
Applied,
Background checked,
We met,
Eyes scanned bodies, queer, young,
they must be lovers right? Evicted.
This is a respectable community. Your kind isn’t accepted here.
We don’t want any trouble here. You’re free to love who you want to, But no,
Not here. Not at home.
MX Leo Williams 