Black Looks: Nature aint rigid

 

Nature aint rigid

Spanning the world
From Africa to Asia;
From Europe to utopit
Anywhere you go
In gender identity
There are no absolutes
In gender identity
There are only relatives
Forcing absolutes
Upsets the balance
Of nature – relativity
Brings equilibrium

this is…

Its natural from birth i was told
Botherwise; only aged three or four

Frontier identity gender the is this –
One are genderqueer + transgender
You be to fought be to have wars if
Knot a to up adds this all

I was a man
I am now a woman
I was a woman
I am now a man
I was seen as both
I am neither…
You are a man, a mob says
You are a woman, a mob says
I am a woman, i insist
I am not a man but some insist
Now both I am
Now neither am i
I am everybody
I am not everybody
I stand at the cusp
Of both and neither
And so when you
Say you know all
All you know is
Y o u r s e l v e s

Y o u r s e l v e s
Is know you all
Know you say you when
So and neither and both of
Cusp the at i
Everybody not am i
Everybody am i
Neither am i
Now both am i
Man a not am i
Woman a am i
Neither am i
Both now am i
Woman a am i
Man a not am i

Four or three aged only
Botherwise; told was i
Birth from natural its

So you told me?
Man a not am i
Woman a are you
Woman a not am i
Man a are you
Woman a am i
Man a are you
Woman a am i

Equilibrum brings
Relativity -nature of
Balance the upsets
Absolutes forcing
Relatives only are there
Identity gender in
Absolutes no are there
Identity gender in
Go you anywhere
(?) Utopia to Europe from
Asia to Africa from
all this adds up to a
Knot if wars have to
Be fought to be you
Transgender + genderqueer
Are one – this is the gender
Identity frontier

Is this

Cos

Nature aint rigid

Mia Nikasimo (c) October 2011

This post first appeared here: http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/nature-aint-rigid/. As ever, thanks to Mia and to Sokari Ekine for this collaboration.

 

(Photo Credit: Red Pepper)