"Bex Middlesex"
Anonymous
All my life I have been teased,
scolded and preached at.
Children in the playground pulled at my
premature beard. My own parents
disowned me, saying I was a freak of nature.
I lived in an orphanage for sometime,
suffering as an outcast.
When I was eighteen, I joined a traveling circus,
in the hopes of becoming an acrobat.
But the Boss just laughed,
then asked me if I was a man or a woman.
I never knew.
He said I could live with the freaks like me.
All day, people pointed and laughed,
excited, yet utterly disgusted at the
sight of a Hermaphrodite.
When we traveled to Solitary Island,
People were not as cruel,
I did not care, though.
I was sick of my pathetic life
The citizens of Solitary Island
were unfortunate enough to find
my mangled body in the lion's cage.
I am a Youth Options student at Nicolet and a liberal, free spirit in every sense.
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No poetry by faculty/staff members for today's posting.
