“We praise our capacity for reason, but are unreasonably intolerant of other people’s validity, and reasons”.”
—Mental Fight -Ben Okri
June 2009
11 posts
“Best excuse in a thousand years to transcend our grim ancient fear”
—Mental Fight -An Anti-spell for the 21st century, by Ben Okri, Phoenix House, Orion Publishing Group, 1999
Gratitude
Gratitude 1
Here with gratitude to
All transgender, gender
-Queer & gendered Alike,
Listen up people: nobody
Knows anything they do
Not acknowlegde out of
Fear. Do not judge
Anything from a position
Of fear. There is always
Something new beneath
The face of heaven,
Always, always, always.
Here with gratitude to
Say what we have all
Long suspected but darn’t
Openly or outwardly
Speak lest we are found
Wanting & undesirably so.
Under the aegis of age old
Trade in humans for gain
Easel’s new treasures
Emerged for us to see.
On display the imps of ire:
The fear of failure,
onstructed supremacy,
The down turned gazes
At the private viewing
That lay present, proud.
Forever courageously
Flowing within my family:
My gender free brothers,
My gender free sisters,
The gender attached
Others too forgetfully
Unaware of their own
Passionate prejudices
Will talk when their
Guards are down, down, Down.
Mia Nikasimo (c) June 2009
Discrimination
Discrimination is in a
Smile, a throw away
Comment, a joke can
All make you canon
Fodder, looking over
Your shoulder at every
Step -sms photographers
Are on the prowl again.
Discrimination is in a
Thought, a certain look,
A contemptuous hiss on
A packed bus; deadly!
Discrimination is a
Word that means
Reasonable deduction?
Try sms street talkshows.
Discrimination is a virus
Of hatred: of racism,
Sexism, genderism, age
-ism, jism, tism, schism
Discrimination is you
Name it; a look, a thought,
A frown, hatred
Because of my person
Or yours, or whoever’s…
Mia Nikasimo (c) June 2009
Gratitude
Gratitude 2
“My mother would
Say, ‘those gay people
Are unnatural…’ just a
Product of her time”.
My Attention asked of her
Thoughts hidden behind
Unspoken present angst:
yalo -the masculine woman,
Ito -the Transgender man,
Julio -The transman, the sworn
Fag hag armed with his
Perky breasts to boot
Are examples to us all
Who do or who do not
Inhabit gender variant
Space. Normative gender
In it’s paranoid
Restriction aims to rob us
All of diversity if not our
Very lives. “I love this woman,
Or what is sh…”
“A woman; a transwoman!”
said agent provocateur, Easel Patel.
“Sh looks too masculine though,
Don’t you think?” “A woman!” I said
Sternly, almost alarmed.
“Specifically; a woman.
Women come in all
Shapes & sizes. Nobody is
An Island, no man or
Woman, no Island fare”.
Nobody knows diversity
Until they come face to
Face with it without fear.
Mia Nikasimo (c) June 2009
Gender...
A single beer was all
It took the throbs set in.
Pounding headache.
Gender is not sexuality
Paranoid community
Leaders hide behind a finger.
It is always, always nice
To meet old friends after
Moments of idle asides
Perhaps I should pipe
Down in insipid isolation.
Barking, backing up
Not wanting out, stay put
Ride the tidal wave of
Vituperative avallanches
Run, run, run for dear life
Isn’t that trying to out
Run one’s capable shadow?
She who lives by chatter
Dies the selfsame way
As the sword bearer does
But for me, Osun
Protects indefatigably.
There’s no more running.
Anonymity has become
Me. Attachments are tags
Of communal coersion.
Fear rules, fear prowls &
Closest neighbours count
On its selfish continuity.
Be4 u say “I don’t know”
Your directorships, think
What peril u do us “T”.
Mia Nikasimo (c) June ‘09
Yes...
Yes…
Yes I used to don size 12s
Yes I will always love gals
Yes I want more & more
I do hopefully with ourselves
(intact)
Yes I love pants of elves
Yes hedged dreadlocks
Yes, oh yes, sweet saline soup
You are killing me!
I hear bells!
Yes tongue please, praise
Yes fingers too! Deep as…
Yes, yes, oh yes leggy play
Do me again one more
trace
Yes because we can
Yes to tickles winkles
Yes a size 14 going 16 can
Too but when can we try talking?
Hopefully, sooner?
Yes, can we do so later?
(No darling, lets talk now.
It’s now or never babes,
What do you say, yes, no!)
Mia Nikasimo (c) June 2009
Why?
Why?
Because even you are Human,
Because you are my Sister,
Because you are my Brother,
Because, only if allowed Yourself,
We could be pals, you and I,
Because, in a past life, you
Were my mother, and I yours,
Because, looking through
Eons of the ether, you were my father,
Because you’ve been all
Creatures to arrive here,
Because we all Interconnected…
I’ll reach out to you all the same.
Why?
Because all creatures are bright and
Beautiful no matter the surface of sea.
Mia Nikasimo (c) June 2009
So Angry?
Why is everyone so angry?
All it takes is a jolt of
Deep dark difference &
Well meaning people are
Just as insane as insanity
Why is everyone so angry?
All it takes is for silent
Determination to stare
People in the eye, eye to eye.
Even fresh air is enough to irritate you…
‘What are you… Why is every-
one so angry? Every nook and
Cranny brought more tension;
Every word I spoke inviting shrill screams
‘What did you say?’ Why is everyone so
Angry? Why? Why? Why are people so angry?
Why? You ask too many Questions!
Mia Nikasimo (c) May 2009
Untitled...
Untitled…
There was nothing to
Worry about any more:
Pilots were carried out
The early days sodden
With such well meaning
Attempts at maintaining
A semblance of order;
Disorder reigned even a
Thirteen year old boy
Gave expectation, a voice.
“How much encouragement
Do you need to end it?
How much time to kill yourself
Once and for all?”
He said echoing
Everyone’s eloquent
Expectations of you that
They couldn’t fathom. A
Singularity, a minority of
One… A life all your own!
They want you to leave.
There was nothing to
Worry about any more!
You chose to stay, still!
Mia Nikasimo (c) May 2009
