Students in Thailand
can go
(if they have to go)
to the little boy’s room
or of course
the little girl’s room
if they should feel the need to pee
or perhaps powder a nose.
Who knows?
But even
She-boys or Lady-boys or “transvestite kids”
are accommodatingly
accommodated*
The sign on the door
a split half man(blue) half woman(red) logo.
The “Pink Lotus” room
where they too
can wee or powder whatever
has to be
powdered
without being the focus
of laughter or jokes.
For whether you be male/female/cross-gendered
the call of Mother Nature
has to be obeyed
‘cos when ya gotta go
ya gotta go
just make sure you go
where you are supposed to go.
*As school director in Kampang Secondary points out:
“The transvestite kids may behave even more effeminately than the girls do but then their anatomy is still like that of a boy!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Always an education reading your stuff Dee Dee! Enjoyed. HG; -) xx