Clever

I'm disenamoured with clever

clever without compassion and care

what is your clever?

hollow minstrel to screech out the day

the dull echo of cisgender voices

their chanting cacophony

tintinnabulation of smarts

how they have fallen entirely in love

with the sound of themselves

but there are those of us
we trans people
who have been served stealth as survival

but we’re branded as cheats and liars

because: haven’t-we-fooled-you-good?

the familiar drone of privileged men

clanging their way through us

drowning out our subtle cries

cishet boy scuffs his toe and tjanks so loudly

"but I, too, have known suffering"

while entire generations flood by

queer is flushed down the toilet 

along with used makeup wipes

the loud bells ring

where cishet becomes the gatekeeper

ding-ding-ding

the teacher

back to class

back to class

learn to be cishet

squash yourself back into binary

this is the preapproved syllabus

the school ubiquitous

like air we breathe

cisociety's pseudolung

hissing hissing hissing

pumping our lungs full of it

eradication and assimilation

in the absence of truth

the artificial flavour

this is clever

splained to us from klaxons

"you're a fraud"

"you're a fraud"

"you're a fraud"

"you're a fraud"

sunup to sundown

we don't even hear it anymore

and conveniently neither do they

so they can say

we're imagining things

hearing voices where none exist

the hatred we feel is merely
"truth"
or "science"

biology shoved down our throats

and why not?

Germaine Greer is a "well respected feminist"

TERF through-and-through

and afterall, who are we to disagree?
sung to the same tune of MRA's and atheist dudebros
jammed down our throats
as we're expected to sing their tune

when the same songs we sing to water our plants

are the songs we sing to bury our dead

driven into the ground

by steamdriven machines

heavy percussive clanks

imbedding us in easily consumable

-bite-

-sized-

-chunks-

so Logo TV has something to present

something nice and simple

sweet to the ears

an uncomplicated song

to sing in harmony with homonationalism

pinkwashed lyrics 

for pinkwashed consumers

who all have gay friends

so they totally know the words to sing

all in harmony with the noise

that drowns out the drowning

that screams over the subtle voice

the voice that asks for

her not him

he not she

they not her

ze not he

but clever sounds so much better

and your "free speech"

so much more important

than lives trampled under cisconsumerism

and a feminism that hates women

that likes to pretend that the non-binary doesn't exist

it's all very clever

isn't it?

a clever song

with clever words

and when all is said and done

how good is your clever when we are dead

or was that your tune all along?

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