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alexseanchai) wrote2015-01-25 04:58 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2015-01-25 04:58 pm
Entry tags:
On Communication
there are things
I want
to tell
my mother
things I want
to ask her
and I could
if I lied
just a little
say "he"
instead of
the proper pronoun
pretend to
cisgender
heterosexuality
and even with
the parts she most
objects to
stripped out
of what
to tell her
she would object
to the distance
to thinking oneself able
to know someone else
only through what they say
with words
so I stitch closed
my mouth
and with my hands
type a poem
she will never
see.
I want
to tell
my mother
things I want
to ask her
and I could
if I lied
just a little
say "he"
instead of
the proper pronoun
pretend to
cisgender
heterosexuality
and even with
the parts she most
objects to
stripped out
of what
to tell her
she would object
to the distance
to thinking oneself able
to know someone else
only through what they say
with words
so I stitch closed
my mouth
and with my hands
type a poem
she will never
see.