LJI:W3 Everything looks like a nail
I spent my childhood
in a binary world of zeros and ones
where the black and white rules
of targets and tools
distinguished the daughters from sons.
In my adulthood
I learned to count in other numbers
see the colors of context and phrase
and welcome the ways
individuality unencumbers.
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Edited on 2019/10/15 @ 2:05pm, before voting started - I replaced the original word "embrace" with "welcome" for better alignment with the previous stanza.