##########the Pink Lotus Room Poem by Dee Wright

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!