“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.” - Richard Siken

Test Question: Considering the poem of Richard Siken, can you find any homosexual aspects coded within it or some degree of internalized homophobia?
Criteria: The students should identify the elements, or key words that portray these terms in the text, and find explicit or internalized discrimination based on the views of the binary oppositions between heterosexual and homosexual, and then determine which one is being undermined.