I can't go to Florida because

They might throw me in jail

Just for using the bathroom—

And on top of that,

It would be a men's jail!

 

In June, 2025, a trans woman

Named Marcy Rheintgen

Was arrested for using the women's bathroom

At the Capitol in Tallahassee.

The charges were dropped, but still...

 

Ron DeSantis is a noxious pile

Of toxic waste, and so

Are his ideological brethren!

 

Did you know he was a lawyer at Guantánamo Bay?

And that according to Harper's Magazine,

He just laughed at the prisoners being tortured.

 

And now he's brought his trademark sadistic attitude

To the business of running the state!

 

When I was fifteen,

And still ostensibly a boy,

I went to visit my long-distance girlfriend

In the suburbs of Miami.

We went to Hot Topic,

And made out to Fauré's Requiem.

 

But now the Miami suburbs are one of the places

Where rainbow crosswalks

Were erased by the Florida Department of Transportation.

They did the same thing to the Pride Memorial Crosswalk

In Orlando,

 

And posted cops around it

To prevent it from being repainted.

 

So I can't go to Florida right now,

But maybe someday all of us will take over the damn place,

And turn it into a queer utopia!

Yeah!

​

- Alex Temple, 2026.