Read Poem: to boyhood / i never knew him, by Trâm Anh Nguyễn

/ i was born / i was asked immediately to be a woman / i grew up wearing bras earlier
than other boys & girls / i bled before i knew / what love was / i tried at girlhood / it was
only alright / until i started to bleed / i entered into boyhood / it was a taste of heaven /
boyhood / a dream / it was all that it was / all it ever can be / i never got to be a boy / but i
got to be a child / genderless as they can be / this body was never mine / this body never
should’ve been mine / but this body was mine / this body is mine / this body will be mine
/ for always / i live in this boyless body / until my heart beats for a last time / i cry about
it / then i laugh / i cry again / i try to survive through it all /

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