A white man wouldn't less
He stripped me naked was
Whipping me know
I was a woman got
A name just turn
It inside out
And I'm a man
How else I'm gonna know myself
When I am called
A white man wouldn't twice I had
Smallpox twice after I enlisted
twice and had / To be
hospitalized both times
Ain't never once
no doctor nor no nurse
Discovered me
No for no white woman
I wouldn't have
nothing for her to see
She would want me to know she seen
And I was watching close
How else I'm gone to know myself
When I am called
And what she see is anyway
how is she gonna know for sure
Black man ain't got
a hole down there
How is she know he ain't
A white man born wrong inside out
and twice as big and mean
And got a hole go twice as deep to hell
How is that woman sure
of anything at all
How else I'm etc
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Surely the best poet writing today in English.