The despicable acts of suburban primates.
my scientific fascination aught to leave me expecting such savages,
not gaping at them.
Ah, if only I had not been born into a supple, feminine body...
and endowed instead with the barrel-chest of my brother
brute strength to be used for exploitation and debauchery
or in defense of the weak.
loneliness
cuts like daggers to the bone
discovering places I've never felt the cold