at that age
when our friends start dying.
Crossed-out addresses.
© Rachel Green June 2025
I want to thank a lady swimmer
who took a stand in a traditional way
when discrimination started brimming
with attacks against the Queer and Gay.
Anne Isabella Coombes transitioned
in the Covid Isolation blender
and asked the swimming groups permission
to compete in sport as her chosen gender.
"Of course," they said, "it would be improper
for us to deny you that human right,"
but the Gender Exclusionary High Court stopper
deemed humiliation to be her plight.
"You're legally defined in new derision
'as 'not-a-man' but a 'not-woman' too;
and so we made a new division:
the 'not-women' open category. You."
And so she swam with all the penis holders
in trunks while bare-chest lady boulders.
© Rachel Green June 2025
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