# #politics

2 poems

## [t4t](https://chromato.graphics/t4t)

i read that things used to be different for us. that we used to hide behind heavy coats, from ourselves. i read that we’d get compared to cigarettes on the street in broad daylight just for walking the wrong way. things are different for us now. not because we are the majority, but because we are not, and we know that. our difference is our value.

things changed because seasons did. the old trees that once ruled the forest have fallen, been subsumed into the soil. things changed because our elders fought for us and their enemies dwindled. life is no less complicated here and now. it may be more so. but that complexity, that intricacy, that is part of what makes this worth it.

i went on a date yesterday. they had two faces and three names. his lips felt like safety and possibility and becoming. we didn’t need to connect our brains with wires to see. we spoke the same language, we knew the same songs. our bodies united like an antique lock and key, lubricated with the oil of our passion. i want more. no, i need it.

all my friends are trans. i broke up with the ones who weren’t.  
they understood.

change is good. the people that don’t get that will never get us. not all change is for the better, but the potential for growth and for flourishing is all we have. the possibility that tomorrow will be a new day with new rules. and that we’ll be here for each other when it arrives. that we’ll nurture the seeds and each other. that we can.

## [“in   your<br> ideal world,<br> what   does<br> the  future<br> of   gender<br> look  like”](https://chromato.graphics/ideal-world)

gender      abolition  
pronoun  coronation  
human       elocution  
border    dissolution

frequent faggotry  
gorgeous    gayety

sacred   impiety  
campy pageantry

constant  questioning  
mutual strengthening

boundary   trespassing  
differents   welcoming