By Button Poetry
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Myles Taylor, performing “Boy With Wings”.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
00:01
I decide I’m having a femme de I wear
00:09
men’s clothes anyway bind my chest
00:13
anyway make sure to look trans trans
00:19
enough I paint on sparkling eyeliner
00:24
call myself boy with wings I leave the
00:29
house ready to fly I am misgendered on
00:34
the sidewalk I begin to melt when Icarus
00:43
was given his wings they came with a
00:45
warning he was told they could bring him
00:48
to safety or lead to his death that this
00:51
freedom could come with a price theory
00:54
Icarus was trans felt his feet leave the
00:58
floor in gender euphoria so gender
01:01
angel boyish attitude with FEM
01:03
feather soft and dangerous screams
01:05
target to the world hits the Sun starts
01:07
to sizzle new theory Icarus was this cuz
01:10
he didn’t think he could burn thought
01:13
his privilege would protect him fought
01:15
soft mints his for the taking dove right
01:19
into the clouds last time I wore a suit
01:22
out and didn’t bind I got stared at on
01:24
the subway every I was a small Sun and
01:27
my skin dripped everywhere last time I
01:29
wore a dress every other word was she
01:32
felt like a fence with wings cotton
01:33
string went home early who was I think I
01:36
could be taken seriously without
01:37
performing one gender every moment of my
01:40
life new theory Icarus was sustainless
01:42
one builds his daughter wings stay in be
01:45
a good girl it’s your fault of the Sun
01:46
hits you like that new theory Icarus was
01:49
trans cuz he wanted to be a son so bad
01:51
he flew straight into one I confess
01:58
some days I want to be a man and other
02:02
days I just want to be feared but being
02:08
non-binary is flying that path between
02:11
the sea and the sky is
02:14
freedom without asking too much of the
02:16
air non-binary Ken Sparkle Ken high
02:19
femme and dapper is the wings wax that
02:21
won’t melt and feathers that don’t fall
02:23
because our fathers and build them for
02:25
us we made them ourselves
02:27
we have to learn to build with the world
02:29
will not give us to ungenerous teary
02:35
Icarus wasn’t trans he would have known
02:39
not to gamble with sunlight would have
02:43
known that we aim for the moon we only
02:47
want to go where men have been allowed
02:50
to go already we only want to go where
02:53
we can shine and become nothing but our
02:56
names
02:58
[Applause]
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