A Father's Toast At His Gay Son's Wedding Reception..... [same-Sex Marriage; Humour/Humor; Johnny Cash Song/Sheldon Silverstein Poem; Short] Poem by Bri Edwards

i happened to go to the PH home page and look down the list of top 500 poets. i wasn't there! oh well. next year maybe.
anyway, i noticed the poem 'A Boy Named Sue', which for some reason i thought had been written by the country singer Johnny Cash (hope i spelled this and the next name correctly!) . i found out the author was actually 'Shel' Siverstein (he also wrote children's books and did a bunch of other creative things before he died in 1999) . J.Cash sang the song and apparently changed a few words, or so i read. so i wanted to read the poem and i did. that gave me the idea for this poem, which is based on the slow, but increasingly-more-common move to acceptance of same-sex marriages in america and elsewhere.......(unfortunately not everywhere, in MY opinion; i mean i think it is unfortunate) . the poem is also based on my imagination.

don't forget to vote me into the top 500 next time you get the
chance.

p.s. i typed this online (in the 'comments' area under the poem, here on PH) instead of using a pen and paper as i usually do. i typed a bit different version first, which was lost somewhere in cyberspace due, i think, to PH [poor PH; they always get blamed! ] AND some recent change in my Yahoo pages; my wife (the computer-savvy resident of this house) was not available to help me try to retrieve it. oh well; maybe this version is better?