Live Open Mic Night!

Hello! As of today, I am already halfway through my experience in the Between the Lines writing program at the Iowa Writer's Program. Last night, we performed at the Yacht Club in downtown Iowa City. If you would like to view the performance, please click the link to the program's post on their Facebook page HERE. (to hear my piece, I begin somewhere around the 32-minute mark!)

Please let me know if the link is broken and I'll replace it with one that works!

I heard,

And by heard

I mean I stalked

Your Facebook profile,

I heard that you like bad boys.

Well, I don’t mean to brag

But I named myself after my cat

And it caught on too fast for me

To change it to something else

I heard you like boys

Who tell you what to do

Well, gosh darn it, use my pronouns!

I am they and he

Take your choice

I’m such a bad boy

I don’t correct people

When they misgender me

I will be your token transboy

The one who

Because I wasn’t born

With a penis

(Especially not one

As small as yours)

You convince yourself that

We can be in a multi-month long relationship

And you’re still straight.

But sure

Put your hands

On my dysphoric body

Because I’m such a bad boy

I literally don’t have the balls to

Tell you to stop

I’m such a bad boy that

My voice is all sexy

Kind of low grainy raspy

Hurts just a little

Because they

Took me to a waterfall

So loud and powerful

They took me inside

The noisy waves

And told me to

Shout the things

I won’t tell you

And I screamed them

Over and over

Finishing you off with

“What could you

Possibly gain from this?”

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