Lovely Penguin

Perhaps this poem is about gender politics, maybe about just gender, or the alienation of the LGBT community. I’ll leave it up to you. Thanks for reading
by marie gordon

Thought police
Inside my head
Inside my sex
Inside this world
Curriculum sadism

Be still and be
A woman
Dynamically
Human but you’re
Not man
Teach me to hate

A little piece
Irremovable
Irreducible
A piece of me
A piece of my sex
A piece of the brain

Is it that my brain
Has somehow contorted
The genders?

Blow your whistle
Test me, drill me
I’ll be kind
Persistent
To resist pacificism

Or comply
When necessary
While wishing
That someone else
Will speak up

She is a mutant
A mutant among
A mutant culture
Because her head
Is twisted
Unfixably
Sick

Show me flowers
Images of beauty
Images of feminine
Divine and subtle
Graceful and mute

Somehow it never
Happens to me
That transformation
That place where I
Would be a woman

Is it because I was born
A contorted mutant
Part-man, maybe
Maybe only half a woman
Maybe just a bifurcation
Between gender politics
And insanity

Between hatred
And sheer confusion

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