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February 4th, 2022
• Nicole Hobbs • Jaya Prisco • Aimee Balint •Bryce • Bethany •
Dear mom
I don’t usually use the term “dear”
Too distant,
It sounds too “I’ll never see you again” or “I haven’t seen you in a long time” or “I’ve never really seen you”
Mom, I have seen you
I’ve never seen tears pool the way yours do
Dear mom, this is not a goodbye
Dear mom
You’ve always wanted a daughter
What if I told you you had one?
Not always but sometimes
Dear mom
I will not call myself your daughter,
I will not ask you to stop calling me your son,
I am sorry I cannot give you a word
All I have are three new pronouns,
They all start with X, Xie, Xem Xyr
I crossed out the beginnings, but I didn’t erase them, you just have to look a little harder to know what they said
Dear mom
I know you see me
I know this can not be new, I know you’ve always known,
Even when before I did
Please, don’t be upset, I finally found out too
Dear mom
This is like shifting
Going from gas, to solid to liquid,
I am steam, melting into ice,
I don’t know what phase your child is today
Mom this is not a phase
Remember how we lost that Luther Vandross CD but we knew all the lyrics by heart,
This is me finding myself 20 years too late,
But we always knew the song by heart
We can blast it loud as we want now, if you’ll sing with me
Dear mom
Your son did not die
I did not kill him
You did not kill him
You will still be my best friend
And we will still talk about Survivor, and Real Housewives,
And I’ll tell you about my friends and you’ll tell me about home, and I’ll tell you everything I can about me except for those things I don’t know how to tell you
Dear mom
I’m sorry strangers will hear these words before you ever read them
I’m sorry you may never read them,
I’m sorry I didn’t come to you right away
I did not want to disappoint you,
I did not want to believe that you would be disappointed,
I need you more than ever, waiting this long has hurt me too
Dear mom
This is not the poem you wanted for mothers day
Dear mom
Purple is a common color on the asexual, genderqueer and genderfluid flags
It represents all of my queer and trans identities in one,
When we dyed my hair purple, you liked it
Dear mom
I’m not the mamma’s boy we thought I was
Well sometimes, I am
But sometimes, I’m more like your daughter
Sometimes, I’m neither one,
But I’m always the child you raised
Your child
•Trousers & corset by Sorrentino Studios
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• Trousers by Sorrentino Studios
