KarMel
Scholarship 2007
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“Miss Matched” By Anonymous |
Desciption of Submission: In my Women's Health class this
semester, we touched upon the topic of Trans Issues. During the presentation, we discussed the
different perspectives and controversies around female-to-male and
male-to-female transitions, which was really fascinating to me because it's not
a common topic in normal rhetoric. In
this poem, I wanted to explore a male-to-female
transition and what goes on inside her head, beginning with a symbolic
menstruation on the bedsheets.
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There’s blood in the
bedroom. Of woman, unrealized Unresolved. Rose red blooming… Yet imagination
uninhibited In phallic form and body. The things I yearn, I
desire, I need Gender recaptured— Breasts, hips, hair,
voice, lips Yet I’m still drowning in
my mismatched body In this infallible façade
of fallacy. |