Another Open Letter to Mike Pence, Governor of Indiana

Subject: Another Open Letter to Mike Pence, Governor of Indiana
From: Underneath the Tortoise Shell author Nathaniel T Cardelli
Date: 26 Mar 2015

Old friend,

My writings have not

Ceased and it

Seems you've

Come to

Your ultimate

Tenure goal,

To alienate

A people.

Time and time

Again we have

Watched you fail

To create an

Other

Dividing the lines

Of progress.

Presenting

Discrimination under the

Guise of religious

Freedom and

Expression is

Commendably skillful

But who is to say

That my religion,

My moral compass

Permits me to

Continue to

Grace you as a

Citizen?

Such has come to

Show that Indiana

Mustn't want to

Serve me any longer.

Your work has truly

Made me ashamed of

My Indiana citizenship,

Origins and pride

Tainted by an

Unwillingness to enter

Mutual understanding

An unaddressed

Bigotry that you

Repeatedly and

Privately celebrate.

My area code a

Painful reminder

Of voluntary

Move turned

Political exile.

Your personal

Convictions bleed

Through a

Featured intolerance

For any slight to

Normativity.

An appalling

Lack of foresight

Presented in vague

Wording

Endorsed by

You as though

Religions converge

Upon your

Holiness.

Cowardice has

Yet to bring

Tears to the

Elephants in the

Room,

But fear not

As pen meets

Paper

Tears will fall

For unmet

Expectations and

Stolen progress.

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