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Good Times & Sunshine

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Good Times & Sunshine  Again you're on my mind So warm like a storm To love you I was born  Lyric poems that I wrote  Love songs for your heart You inspired rhythms & rhymes  Sunshine & Good Times On the beach in the rain We were both a little insane  When I didn't know which way You knew exactly what to say  Good Times & Sunshine  Always on my mind  In the tent making love  Memories we can never get rid of If the clock should ever stop Forever young in the heart  When you're on my mind  Good Times & Sunshine  Sunshine & Good Times.

You pass Inspection

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Your mom won't accept you as gay. If you die in the ghetto, it means nothing. If you die in uniform, it means something to someone somewhere. So you join the Marine Corps. Your fellow recruits discover you're gay when they see your ERECTION in the communal shower. You're beat up & ostracized. But you hang in there. Slowly other trainees start to defend you.  One of the drill sergeants takes up for you when the other instructors join the gay taunting & mistreatment. You misinterpret that as your drill sergeant is secretly gay. Maybe. In the final field exercise, you follow him into the shower. You make a pass. He didn't help you because you're gay. He helped you because it's his job to help recruits. You are not the first gay Marine. Your ghetto mom shows up to Basic Training graduation. She forgets you're gay. When reminded, she makes a scene in the dining hall & calls you out as gay. The crowd chant their support for you. Your mom regrets she di...