• Vol. 03
  • Chapter 08
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Becoming June

Blue-face bristles @ six o'clock,
Six-footer; latitudinous shoulders
Gentle
Giant.
Many condescend support; most
Rubberneck.
Femininity is a state of mind;
A way of being.
I’ve Always Been JUNE. My crescive bones
Reported thus.
Snap a pre-op photo -
Nothing changes because I own a slit;
Looks are cozen.
Some women are natural ‘jockstraps’.
Becoming June; my perennial radio station,
Who used elbow grease
To learn my birth argot?
I never have been Stan the Man -
I don’t know him.
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