Abecedarian on Love and Letters

A poem of only twenty lines?
Bam! There goes my abecedarian.
Can't you have some pity on the verbose?
Do unto others? Does that ring a bell?
Eventually justice will prevail. All deserve the chance to pursue the
full measure of their happiness – in words and in love.
Guess I'd better decide which letters to exclude.
How will poor Q feel? I bet he'll see it coming, “This is dodge ball all over again.”
Isn't there some way we can all get along?
Just think how you would feel to be officially excluded.
Kindness needs to come back into style. Hatred is so last century.
Love and letters are all around us – wanted or not. I am
married to this idea of equality! Gee-whiz!
Now is the time! What happens if you become an “other” someday?
Once they burned the “others,” then the books. Let's get out of this fundamentally-flawed box.
Pressure is mounting. This is due tomorrow.
Quick! Let's look at this in a new way. Wraparound?! Mazel tov!
Right, can't leave anyone out, not even unassuming U.
Somehow, we all need to find a way to fit.

Backstory: I wrote this back in February. I thought it was a little strange that I had turned two poems in the day BEFORE they were due. (You could turn in three poems up to 20 lines each for a library contest.) I should have known I'd wind up writing a third and final one at midnight the night before. I guess procrastination and smartass proved once again to be an irresistible combination for me. So I wrote this in like 35 minutes. (Someone was going through a short-lived double abecedarian phase.) Yeah, I know the formatting in blogspot screwed this up. None of the lines run over in the original. ;-)

I managed to hit equal marriage rights, burning at the stake, book burning, (I also had small pox blankets in there, but had to take it out because the line was too long) and a slam on the line limit all in 20 lines. Plus a little golden rule, playground angst, Mazel tov and a quote from Obama's inauguration address thrown in for fun. As with everything I do, it's okay if you don't particularly like it. I like enough for the both of us. :-D

Btw, if you're going to write an acrostic (and I'm sure you ALL will), make sure you have the freaking alphabet spelled right! And that you number the lines right...although since I don't know if the title is included in the limit, the inadvertent 19 turned out to be a good CYA, er, C-my-A.

Update: Gee, I can't believe the library poetry contest committee didn't go for this! (or the other two on Twitter and Brain Freeze.)