Pantoum for Matthew Shepard Matthew Shepard young gay youth from Laramie Wyoming beaten & tortured, a young gay youth tied to a fence after being beaten & tortured for eighteen hours tied to a fence by two hateful bastards for eighteen hours cut down in his prime by two hateful bastards he was a student at the University of Wyoming who studied Political Science they left him for dead the Political Science major who was tied to a fence in the winter’s cold when he was tied to die on a fence where a cycler riding by, thought he was a scarecrow in the winter’s cold a young gay youth hangs in the dead of winter where a cycler rides by thinking he’s a scarecrow in a field flooded with blood