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Spring is warm on my legs and came all at once this year
Bird songs melt into the whistles of men I walk past
The flowering dandelion is killed while her sister sleeps in the soil
The red-winged blackbirds are in season, but I am told my dress is not
I know which ones are the girls because of their colours
I wonder if they can clock me so easily
The sumac cannot refuse to fruit for fear of being eaten
My legs are naked like my heart
If it does not pupate, the grub will die
A man asks me out of his car why I am pretending to be a woman
Silkworms don't know why they spin cocoons
My classmates christened me faggot when I wore shorts
The creek baptized my skirt as I followed the damselflies
I am from dust and to dust I shall return
My care guide says some changes might be irreversible
Worms will reverse them when I go to bed tonight
Tomorrow morning I will wake up and my heart will be soil again
It will be soft and wet like it felt it was supposed to be
The groundwater will wash my soul out into the lake
And for every tear I ever tried to cry and couldn't
I will be met with ten thousand raindrops
And the sound of the rain will bring the bass out
And the size of my chest tomorrow will be different from today
And the shape of my face tomorrow will be different from today
And the way I feel tomorrow will be different from today
And I could stay up all night avoiding tomorrow
But I would fall asleep eventually