A post from the past

I posted this on a website encouraging Mary Cheney to come out.


Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells-
And pretty maids all in a row.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary
Doesn't your father know?
With cover ups and living hell-
lying to us as you go?

Mary Mary quite contrary
When will you ever know?
A Life that is your own and not your dads-
A life not just for show.

Mary Mary quite contrary
Its time for this farce to go.
You say you're out and then you're not-
Just who are you trying to snow?

Mary Mary quite contrary
The answer is quite simple
Say who you are, live your own life-
For that we will be thankful!


"The origins of the original nursery rhyme (1st stanza)are steeped in history...
The Mary alluded to in this traditional English nursery rhyme is Mary Tudor,
or Bloody Mary, who was the daughter of King Henry VIII.
Queen Mary was a staunch Catholic and the garden referred to
is an allusion to graveyards which were increasing in size with
those who dared to continue to adhere to the Protestant faith.
The silver bells and cockle shells were colloquialisms for instruments of torture.
The 'maids' were a device to behead people similar to the guillotine."

The 2- 4 stanzas I wrote and are steeped in history as well.
the Mary I allude to is Mary Cheney, or Lesbian Mary who is a daughter of
Dick Cheney pro war vice president. Mary is a staunch republican and the garden she looks over
is an allusion to growing number of gay people who's lives are taken or ruined
because they choose to speak out for the life they deserve.
The torture and guillotine, her father Dick can speak for as well.