I poem thing about transness as a queer, technically transgender person who doesn’t fit with the label.
I thought I saw the tv glow, but it wasn’t me.
It was just radio static that heard. Radio static that I confused to be the glowing of the tv’s I’ve seen around me and relate too.
I never saw the tv, it never glowed. But I felt something similar. Something, the same.
I never saw the tv glow because I was already in it.
There was just something inside the real me stopping it from glowing its brightest.
A static in the back of my head, confusing my heart.
Telling it I wasn’t me.
But I am me! And it knows that. But the static continues.
Because a radio can’t be unplugged but it can stripped from its batteries.
I check the latch. There’s still one left.
What’s stopping me from making it stop?
What’s keeping that batteries acid going?
I need to stop the flow before it overtakes and chemically burns the real me forever.
What’s stopping my heart from letting me BE ME?
I don’t know why I’m asking. Because I already know.
I had the chance to take both the batteries out but I pushed one back in. I let the acid overtake me when I had the choice to stop the flow.
It’s me. I won’t let me, be me.












