I needed this lazy
this "don't think about" time
this mindless TV watching,
and arguing online over whether
Prince's androgyny comes
from the devil or whether
he is in fact one of the
two-spirited ones the
Native Americans speak of
and would never call evil or demonic
because people show up
in the world in more than binary ways
even if we'd like to deny it
or hope it would
disappear
and I wonder how
people who have never
found themselves attractive or attracted to
men and women or
gender bending people who are
male-and-female and more
can be so sure about these things
about what God intends
when Prince is on the earth
pouring words over it and
dancing the souls of many to
wholeness
and how the saints can declare
it's degradation or that
angels are confused--
like they wouldn't know
whether or how to help
a human being who doesn't
perform the socially accepted
dance of "man" or "woman"--
that God would just ignore the creature
that resembles the first one created
"Male-and-Female" earthling
that God split into
to get the man and woman
version of humanity
How can you be so sure?
© Valerie Bridgeman
February 10, 2013
DRAFT/needs work
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