hello gatekeeper
may I pass into my own country?
or have your standards become too strict?
am I too fat, too ugly, too unmanly to go safely?
am I too poor to buy your pass?
could I bribe my way in somehow?
become a plus-one to the gatekeepers?
a guest in my own home... my own bed?
the suggestion is subtle, delivered with smiles
that I don't belong here in my own plazas
small coded messages written in shame
over makeup and nail varnish
as if I'm the one wearing a mask
pretending at gender
while you desperately clasp at the keys
to the doors of man and woman and other
-o0o-
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