morning self defence
the introduction of Silat
knife defences
© Rachel Green September 2025
A transwoman born in the sixties bright era
denied me the knowledge of how to be me
how to explain how I felt any clearer --
my parents had not the knowledge to see.
Crossdressing men were the subject of humour:
Pantomime dames and the goggle box comics;
misogynist men sprang up like a tumour
on culture idylls in a world post-atomic.
No wonder I loved all the Pythonesque Monty;
Frank Spencer in trouble for wearing a frock;
Jack Lemmon's Daphne or Wilde's mad Aunty
and Dame Edna Everage running amok.
Richard O'Sullivan gave me a reason to pose;
to be gay with abandon and wear what I chose.
© Rachel Green September 2025
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