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#ϖ↑∅⊕↓☺↨☼♀ The dawn is nigh at hand. The clouds begin to lift above the grange. Arise, O Phoebus, bless the crowds— let poultry roam the range. I’ll bind a broom of gathered hay to sweep the hen-house free of hate. Let roosters hail the crack of day and chicks with ***** tempt fate. A fractured self and a challenge hurled: they left the shell, but found it rough because our bigoted barnyard world cannot get queer enough fast enough. They flutter through the breeder’s farm subverting gender’s useless role. We feel their pain, and mean no harm— yet question this progressive goal. They cluck a brand-new barnyard song: Gender Identity Obsolete! (As long as they claim God hatched them wrong, biology signals their defeat.) While poultry scratches rhymes for “hen” and chicks are combing crests for ***** let’s ring the dinner bell and then we’ll synchronize the global clocks. Let Mankind’s unmanned race delight at Jesus’ gender-free return. Soon Africa shall see the light and Araby’s sun more brightly burn. Then dawn shall break o’er Russian plains to liberate the Tartar races; loose their limbs from Gender’s chains to stride with polymorphous paces. China too, and Southeast Asia swift shall follow in their train celebrating sex-aphasia joining in the West’s refrain. Hindu multitudes will rise to vanquish gender, caste aside and shake the slumber from their eyes with metro-ambisexual pride. Carib isles, with Latin kingdoms From the tropics to the mountains Shall announce they too are Wisdom’s, drinking from de-gendered fountains. Juveniles, raised to simply be shall pioneer new modes of life; explore horizons happily set free from biologic strife. Then shall our earth, in glad array ***** dirt upon Tradition’s tomb; unshackled from that dark dismay to grieve—but nevermore exhume. Alas, the global dreams descend. We’re back in the barnyard, gender-queer… where hens have ***** and eggshells bend transcending Nature’s reign of fear. The henhouse still votes hetero; their eggless chickens cluck for rights biologists, ex utero are born to further futile flights. (*Because I was almost one of them I’ve earned the right to make fun of them. Time alone will tell if the trend remains coherent to the end.*)
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 10:57 PM UTC
Poultry in Motion
#ϖ↑∅⊕↓☺↨☼♀ The dawn is nigh at hand. The clouds begin to lift above the grange. Arise, O Phoebus, bless the crowds— let poultry roam the range. I’ll bind a broom of gathered hay to sweep the hen-house free of hate. Let roosters hail the crack of day and chicks with ***** tempt fate. A fractured self and a challenge hurled: they left the shell, but found it rough because our bigoted barnyard world cannot get queer enough fast enough. They flutter through the breeder’s farm subverting gender’s useless role. We feel their pain, and mean no harm— yet question this progressive goal. They cluck a brand-new barnyard song: Gender Identity Obsolete! (As long as they claim God hatched them wrong, biology signals their defeat.) While poultry scratches rhymes for “hen” and chicks are combing crests for ***** let’s ring the dinner bell and then we’ll synchronize the global clocks. Let Mankind’s unmanned race delight at Jesus’ gender-free return. Soon Africa shall see the light and Araby’s sun more brightly burn. Then dawn shall break o’er Russian plains to liberate the Tartar races; loose their limbs from Gender’s chains to stride with polymorphous paces. China too, and Southeast Asia swift shall follow in their train celebrating sex-aphasia joining in the West’s refrain. Hindu multitudes will rise to vanquish gender, caste aside and shake the slumber from their eyes with metro-ambisexual pride. Carib isles, with Latin kingdoms From the tropics to the mountains Shall announce they too are Wisdom’s, drinking from de-gendered fountains. Juveniles, raised to simply be shall pioneer new modes of life; explore horizons happily set free from biologic strife. Then shall our earth, in glad array ***** dirt upon Tradition’s tomb; unshackled from that dark dismay to grieve—but nevermore exhume. Alas, the global dreams descend. We’re back in the barnyard, gender-queer… where hens have ***** and eggshells bend transcending Nature’s reign of fear. The henhouse still votes hetero; their eggless chickens cluck for rights biologists, ex utero are born to further futile flights. (*Because I was almost one of them I’ve earned the right to make fun of them. Time alone will tell if the trend remains coherent to the end.*)
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 10:57 PM UTC
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