Spatially Challenged

I wrote this back when I was making phone calls to promote the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and meeting all sorts of people. Nothing is as important as tolerance.

Spatially Challenged

From the station of the Metro

14^th street lies map-flat

but 13^th climbs sideways and up

dizzily – a man in a parka

sells incense off a wooden table

with vials of colored water –

the wide-faced girl says “I’m a tranny”

but she’s officially a woman these days

with a bloody vagina.

In this place I check my eyeballs at the door

and grope for secrets as first

impressions.

I have a bloody vagina, too, so what

does that make me?