I...'Think' We Are Both In The Kitchen? Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Mom?
The kids at school,
Are picking on me again.
They say I'm gay.

'Gay? '

Because I don't have my ears pierced.
Or have my eyebrows arched.
I wear my hair short.
And my pants are not below my butt.

'Kids can be mean.
Just try to cope with it.
Things will change soon.
Besides...
By the time you begin high school,
Being interested or married...
To someone of the opposite sex,
Is going to be laughed at.'

My girlfriend says the same thing.
And 'both' of her fathers adopted her,
When she was a baby.

'She has TWO fathers? '

Yep.
And not only that.
They were professional football players.

'Where have I been? '

I...
'Think' we are both in the kitchen?