Wrong Body (For Jason Cromwell) (1995)
©1995, 2013 by Dallas Denny
Source: Dallas Denny. (1995). Wrong body (for Jason) (Poem). Chrysalis: The Journal of Transgressive Gender Identities, 2(2), 6.
Wrong Body
(For Jason Cromwell)
I am not in the wrong body
Wrong body
Wrong body
I am not in the wrong body
I’m not “trapped”
I was never trapped
It’s just that this body developed in ways
I would rather it had not
And it was necessary to do a little
Shall we say
Social and physical re-engineering
To make things more to my liking
It wasn’t a question of wrong body
It was a question of right body, wrong characteristics
And a tune-up was required
And so I have resculpted it
Made it more to my liking
Gained this, lost that
I may not have liked everything about it
But was not the wrong body
It was never the wrong body
It’s the right body
It has already been the right body
It’s my body
And now it’s just as I have always wanted it
What could be simpler?