Anglophile
I was an Anglophile since Wilde
And Keats, before I was 20.
Tried to change my citizenship
When I was 24.
Then I heard about Turing,
Which resurrected Wilde.
Victims of English propriety,
Ingratitude, and hate.
They turned on the man who had
Made them happy.
They turned on the man who had
Saved the war.
One in 1890,
And 1952.
Now rubbing salt in the wounds of
Christ,
Some very stupid officious men
Consider forgiving Turing,
And possibly Oscar Wilde.
Wilde and Turing and Edward the Second
Should consider forgiving them.
The British rule with decency.
Americans just shoot.
7-26-13
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