When Counting Shows Us We Have More Than We Thought

Summer means 'Gay Pride Month'.
This year there will be no marches;
all celebrations of sexuality will be online
which will make them seem more confined
for those of us who see computers
as a means to the end,
not a source of life in themselves
as much as a route to ever deeper social isolation.

But this might be the right year to reflect
that whilst there there are over two hundred
national governments across a world,
in over eighty of them the expression
of same sex relations is illegal,
that is too many countries to list here,
but fifteen of them are in The Commonwealth
the greater bock once controlled by the Britsh,
among the eighty a large majority are Muslim,
and the law remains the way it does
because of the slippage between law an custom.