The tortures couldn't break them, so they tried to replace them. Mutilating their form
And ripping and shaping their flesh to mould some mutilated plastic doll of conformity they forced. Turning them into outcasts, not to see family.
The 900.
A new birth certificate, an
attempt to **** the persona and replace with moulded soulless form.
Many half finished.
In the military.
Committing suicide after being abandoned.
When a boulder is on your spine, about to snap it,
even a clawed hand,
is seen as a helping one.
1993-The puritans at work again.
injecting oestrogen to force a character into a form they deem fit,
for 'delicate minds'.
In spirit it's all the same. crushing those who don't fit in to the model village. with its identical plastic figurines. Crushing them. in an eternal smile. In a model world. All dead plastic.
This poem is about Homophobia throughout history, both at the obvious and not-so obvious levels. The 900 are the Gay men in South Africa who were given forced ***-change operations as part of Apartheid's 'Aversion Project' in the 70s/80s. The name 'Zoisite' refers to a character in the anime series 'Sailor Moon' in 1992, in the original Japanese dub Zoisite was a gay male character, however, when the show was broadcast in the USA, he was given a female voice actor, basically changing him into a straight woman.
