GenderBenders

                         What is man
                          or wo-man?
                          Is girl defined by boy
                          or is he incomplete next to
                          she when the gurl
                         becomes her own with
                          no need for doggs no more
                                                                       Discovering sexuality
                                                                       becomes a woman
                                                                       in a man's world.
                                                                       Talk[ing]
                                                                       touching
                                                                       caressing your vagina
                                                                       secomes taboo.
                                                                       Woman who love
                                                                       women who love
                                                                       embracing sexuality
                                                                       are somehow men
                                                                       or are said to be
                                                                       trying to be
                                                                       men, man, wo-man.


                                                  Black and white are
                                                  no longer relative
                                                  to the world where
                                                  girls are men and
                                                  men is man.

                                                  Even in an age past where
                                                  Ilsa weights for Rick
                                                  carrying heavy loads,
                                                  the wait of the world
                                                  the heart of a woman.
                                                  Sam still plays
                                                  as time went on
                                                  and now instead
   of man saves gurl
   man saves world.

   Alexander's fighting
   Russel Crow and Brad the Pitt
   for top not so made for TV movie roles;
   while America's next top model and
   her idol
   wish for blue-er eyes than God
   And Pecola faces life in hell
   because American Pop Culture
   has to have
   everything.

   And Grandma's left wondering
   when did wrinkles become
   the Hitler mustache
   of our genderation?
   Able to conjur discust
   and scare away millions.

   Sccumming to
   the affects of
   the reality TV life.

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Updated: Dec 26 '04