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I AM A MAN: My unrequested Y gives me the power to take what I wish
And silently my queer must be declared or exposed to be trodden
I am given legitimization due to my swagger, feared due to stature
I see women ahead of me turning heads nervously over-shoulder
Darkened sidewalks no place for such beautiful resilient flowers
I do not wish to hoard your petals but merely hold your hand from afar
You, in robes of red, I am a the hunter that walks in the body of other wolves
I am too am cold, share your exhaled breath rising smoky in dim lit nights
I fear to be torn into with epithets and knifes for my orientation
While you hurry - heels clicking - to avoid masculine utilization
But I am a wicked man in the garden of towering straight narrow morality
I tend to flowers with sun and shelter from the cold and you give me beauty
Talk with me our patriarchal oppression to hope for a new generation
Raise your little Y's close to your heart and tell them how to treat a woman
Tell them to love themselves and cry on occasion - to love all and within
And embrace your fellow female nation - with allies of color and queer kin
My ears ache from shameful sounds, women shouting feminism forlorn
Pretty sounds of girls giggling unaware of lurking strangers of my relation
I am a man who wishes he was not apart of his gender's success
Yet a part of a community only loved for our fashion, parties, and finesse
Because gender equality is queer equality is racial equality is human rights
Religious freedom is to allow conservatives to cackle and men to marry
We are connected through shared oppression from dominant forces above
And until we unite I will use my Y to bring them to equality or else down under
I should be writing my paper due over 19 hours ago. Britney got me hooked on Jay Brannan. I'll post my favorite songs of his later... but this song of his inspired the poem above. It's pride weekend here in Long Beach and that paper I'm writing is a comparative analysis of feminism in Turkey and the US and with all my research I've done for past pieces in speech and debate I've starting thinking about and come to realize how importantly interconnected the queer/womens/human rights and racial equality/religious freedom/genocide prevention are. They are ALL reliant on one another for success. And once the people in those separate movements come together - we will truly have peace and equality.
You know me... always the realist-idealist contradicting dreamer.
And silently my queer must be declared or exposed to be trodden
I am given legitimization due to my swagger, feared due to stature
I see women ahead of me turning heads nervously over-shoulder
Darkened sidewalks no place for such beautiful resilient flowers
I do not wish to hoard your petals but merely hold your hand from afar
You, in robes of red, I am a the hunter that walks in the body of other wolves
I am too am cold, share your exhaled breath rising smoky in dim lit nights
I fear to be torn into with epithets and knifes for my orientation
While you hurry - heels clicking - to avoid masculine utilization
But I am a wicked man in the garden of towering straight narrow morality
I tend to flowers with sun and shelter from the cold and you give me beauty
Talk with me our patriarchal oppression to hope for a new generation
Raise your little Y's close to your heart and tell them how to treat a woman
Tell them to love themselves and cry on occasion - to love all and within
And embrace your fellow female nation - with allies of color and queer kin
My ears ache from shameful sounds, women shouting feminism forlorn
Pretty sounds of girls giggling unaware of lurking strangers of my relation
I am a man who wishes he was not apart of his gender's success
Yet a part of a community only loved for our fashion, parties, and finesse
Because gender equality is queer equality is racial equality is human rights
Religious freedom is to allow conservatives to cackle and men to marry
We are connected through shared oppression from dominant forces above
And until we unite I will use my Y to bring them to equality or else down under
I should be writing my paper due over 19 hours ago. Britney got me hooked on Jay Brannan. I'll post my favorite songs of his later... but this song of his inspired the poem above. It's pride weekend here in Long Beach and that paper I'm writing is a comparative analysis of feminism in Turkey and the US and with all my research I've done for past pieces in speech and debate I've starting thinking about and come to realize how importantly interconnected the queer/womens/human rights and racial equality/religious freedom/genocide prevention are. They are ALL reliant on one another for success. And once the people in those separate movements come together - we will truly have peace and equality.
You know me... always the realist-idealist contradicting dreamer.
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