Queer Poem by Kenji McCollum

Being queer is like a cauldron,
full of mixtures full of everything you can think of,
people keep trying to separate the mixture,
try to name it,
Maybe the mixture itself can be named,
but its never half or a sing percent of anything,
it just,
is,
Being queer means everything to me,
to be recognized,
acknowledged,
to feel authentically myself,
Every day I'm a little different,
Every day I am both,
Masculine,
Feminine,
Neither,
I feel it is not hard to understand,
I am not a label,
My mixture of who i am,
however,
does have a label,
It feeds into the fact that I am neither,
because my gender expression is claustrophobic,
I am claustrophobic,
my queerness is a wreaking ball,
and the gay community is the crane that holds me up.