Public Service Announcement

If you do not wake up each morning and thank whatever forces in the world that may be working in your favor that you have a family that is gracious enough not to kick you to the curb, be grateful.

If you do not monitor your every movement, under the scrutiny of the public eye, only for the sake of avoiding assault, be grateful.

If you do not live with the expectation that you will be the victim of a hate crime, be grateful.

If your mother doesn't have to worry about the odds of your murder, be goddamn grateful.

Fuck Orlando's fucking lenient gun laws.

My heart goes out to Orlando.

Who do I blame?

(This time. I mean, just this once, give me someone to blame.)

I'm one more voice in the crowd.

I might be preaching to the choir, but don't let me go unheard.

Let this be a call to action.

(And if anything but a call to action, forget you read this. Because if this did nothing, if I did nothing, then I don't know. I don't have any idea why I wrote this. Get the hell out there, and do something.)