Banana from Hard On by New Science Projects

don’t call me a man
don’t call me anything
(a fat man in a chick-suit, broad-shouldered,
with bad acne)
don’t give me a name
just help me believe
oh, I’m ‘too built for passing?’
why can’t you just let me be?
if I were thinner and shorter
would they still laugh at me?
or would they even say anything?

(banana)

don’t avert your eyes
just to stare from behind
oh, I’m aching for ordinary, why can’t my
body comply?
I thought I wore the right things
I practiced my walk
but I can’t go to the drug store without
leaving ripples of talk.
if I were thinner and shorter,
do you think they’d believe?
I swear to god I’d give anything.

(banana)

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