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Nature aint rigid<\/p>\n
Spanning the world
\nFrom Africa to Asia;
\nFrom Europe to utopit
\nAnywhere you go
\nIn gender identity
\nThere are no absolutes
\nIn gender identity
\nThere are only relatives
\nForcing absolutes
\nUpsets the balance
\nOf nature \u2013 relativity
\nBrings equilibrium<\/p>\n
this is\u2026<\/p>\n
Its natural from birth i was told
\nBotherwise; only aged three or four<\/p>\n
Frontier identity gender the is this –
\nOne are genderqueer + transgender
\nYou be to fought be to have wars if
\nKnot a to up adds this all<\/p>\n
I was a man
\nI am now a woman
\nI was a woman
\nI am now a man
\nI was seen as both
\nI am neither\u2026
\nYou are a man, a mob says
\nYou are a woman, a mob says
\nI am a woman, i insist
\nI am not a man but some insist
\nNow both I am
\nNow neither am i
\nI am everybody
\nI am not everybody
\nI stand at the cusp
\nOf both and neither
\nAnd so when you
\nSay you know all
\nAll you know is
\nY o u r s e l v e s<\/p>\n
Y o u r s e l v e s
\nIs know you all
\nKnow you say you when
\nSo and neither and both of
\nCusp the at i
\nEverybody not am i
\nEverybody am i
\nNeither am i
\nNow both am i
\nMan a not am i
\nWoman a am i
\nNeither am i
\nBoth now am i
\nWoman a am i
\nMan a not am i<\/p>\n
Four or three aged only
\nBotherwise; told was i
\nBirth from natural its<\/p>\n
So you told me?
\nMan a not am i
\nWoman a are you
\nWoman a not am i
\nMan a are you
\nWoman a am i
\nMan a are you
\nWoman a am i<\/p>\n
Equilibrum brings
\nRelativity -nature of
\nBalance the upsets
\nAbsolutes forcing
\nRelatives only are there
\nIdentity gender in
\nAbsolutes no are there
\nIdentity gender in
\nGo you anywhere
\n(?) Utopia to Europe from
\nAsia to Africa from
\nall this adds up to a
\nKnot if wars have to
\nBe fought to be you
\nTransgender + genderqueer
\nAre one \u2013 this is the gender
\nIdentity frontier<\/p>\n
Is this<\/p>\n
Cos<\/p>\n
Nature aint rigid<\/p>\n
Mia Nikasimo (c) October 2011<\/p>\n
This post first appeared here: http:\/\/www.blacklooks.org\/2011\/11\/nature-aint-rigid\/<\/a>. As ever, thanks to Mia and to Sokari Ekine for this collaboration.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n