Beyond the Binary
A woman shimmies into a dress
that she wishes was a suit and tie.
A man goes to work today
In a suit and tie
But he wants velvet and lace.
A woman goes to her sewing machine
To mend his tearing seams
while she smokes her cigar.
But she wants the sharp lines of his face
on hers.
A man fingers her taffeta skirts
and silken shawl and thinks,
should this be me?
They are the same experience,
the same person at the same time
in one body.
He is the daughter they expected,
and the son they did not,
yet neither and all.
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Written on January 01, 2024
Submitted by LadyPhantasmagoria on January 06, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 535 |
Words | 134 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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