I will sit on the other side today with two small round biscuit tins in front of me and one is<\/p>\n
pink<\/p>\n
and the other blue and you whoever or whatever you are will learn the meaning of this from before you are born<\/p>\n
as I keep on hold the colours and prints to wrap you in gentle delicate flowers or little cartoon lions and boys with fists that say Bam and Super<\/p>\n
until I know what lies between your legs the cigar or the smile of consolation if you’re the first, commiseration<\/p>\n
if you’re the second<\/p>\n
and as you rise (I forget which poet made that term so popular) as you rise I will pound you into<\/p>\n
the tin of my choosing<\/p>\n
into the colours of those life choices that the tin holds for you<\/p>\n
male biceps at a whisky bar that flex and tell the boys the woman is in hospital having your baby<\/p>\n
female hands pretty forever fragrant and lipstick on a mouth that\u2019s really good for just one thing<\/p>\n
if you dare<\/p>\n
dare<\/p>\n
dare<\/p>\n
look for another tin another choice be who you are in any way not befitting your tin or if you are<\/p>\n
born being anything but one of two<\/p>\n
only one<\/p>\n
of only two<\/p>\n
pink and blue<\/p>\n
I will kill you.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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