‘If You Are a Man’

If You Are a Man

 

It is my metal that makes me a man

But my mind that makes me

A girl. And in the palm of a

Tender hand I can hold the world

As if it were small, like a pearl.

 

You cannot imagine the forms

I will take up, God is a drag queen

I do her fucking makeup

And in my mouth I have secrets

That can shake up what you think

You know about men.

If you are one man, I am ten.

 

It is in the metal of a word

That gives me a name but

My mind and my manhood are

Hardly the same. If you are one man

I am ten, I am not flesh

But a perfume blend.

 

If humanity comes in twos

Then humanity is not what I chose,

I would rather be purple

Than red and blue

If my gender is broken

Then hold your glue.

 

If you are one man

I am two, you would not believe

The things I can do.

I will wear the crown and tiara too.

 

If you are one man

I am eight but the world only wants

Men when they’re straight.

I am not a man and I need no help.

I need not the world if I love myself.