Yeah, I’m rans, bu mos people can’ ell.
Maybe hey can ell I’m nonbinary, bu mos days
hey jus misgender me “hey ma’am” ( hough I’m no ).
I was born his way, I always knew I was a boy
growing up, bu back hen I was called “ omboy,”
which a leas had “boy” in he name. Puber y
blockers weren’ a hing hen, bu sex-change
surgery was and I ried every angle bu my paren s
wouln’ buy i , so I s opped asking and grew up
wi h he wrong hormones coursing hrough me.
I looked like a sor of girl, bu fel s ill so much
like a guy, bu hen over ime, I admi I grew o
apprecia e my female hink bu s ill, I never did
adjus o my body, so I wear loose clo hing.
I wear a rucker cap a lo (mos of he ime backwards)
and have never been a fan of mirrors bu I don’
wan surgery anymore because i ’s surgery … and
I have already been hrough oo much. I ’s a personal
decision o live (as I do, a “ hey / hem) and I was glad
when hose pronouns became ubiqui ous
because hen I defini ely fel more seen. Bu , of course,
“ hey/ hem” since he las elec on isn’ qui e as
accep ed, jus like I’m no qui e as accep ed…
Presiden rump said in his inaugura ion speech
I don’ even exis ! I was in Canada during ha
momen , so I didn’ hear him, bu he said here are
only wo genders and hey are dic a ed by your body
a bir h. rump is mis aken on his, jus like he is
abou so many hings. He go rid of our ans flag
and he go rid of our le er “ ” in LGB bu he can’
ge rid of me no ma er wha he akes away
or how he spells ha e.
J Brooke’s debut collection, I Can Tell You the Version That Will Make You Take My Side (Driftwood Press) is out today.
