Alice's true story book of truths.

So

i'm  hitch-hiking 

cross merica she says

as this guy

in

a mercidies rolls up next to me

and says, "you wanna ride"?

Yes, i do

first

and i tell him i'm transgendered

what it means

to wake up

in the wrong body with

a mind that has

merged with other

rickettsias in a zone

that imitates our genders

somewhere; everywhere. 

"What's it mean to be

different from the neck down"

he asks? Then i say,

while lighting up a Marlboro,

that it's a difference from the neck up.

I was working really hard.

so was he.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and i think of Lou Reed...and start humming the tune...
and thinking of how unaccepting we can be of people...we are who we are...
and from the neck up, what we want to be...from the neck down...what we are given.
sometimes we have to work so hard to understand each other...i wonder why that is. you are so gifted...i saw some Robert Creeley in this.
j.

[h d e rushin]

i did an entire semester on Robert Creeley. Sat there, mostly, dumbfounded by his vision. thank you brother for stopping by to visit. I've been checking out your short poems lately....they too are amazing in the way that April is amazing; too bewitching for spring time to practice it's improbable suppositions thru. I'm practicing my a*s off just to understand that mastery.....dana

[Delmar Cooper]

The whole thing, for me, was that neck up difference. Damn straight, by which I mean damn right.

[h d e rushin]

i'm writing a novel about the improbability of difference....How poetry/ is mostly polytheism and ancestor worship since we deal in spells. It use to be considered (not so very long ago) that trans women were considered so implausible or too unrealistic to exist at all. Then i met a few, and it's true. They are implausible to us in our starched university short sleeves/ i mean, they have to be introduced to us slowly, carefully. In the dark. at the bar. (forgive me brother).
thanks for stopping by to visit me Delmar. I've missed you terribly. dana