You Are Not Just Anything
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2 min readApr 29, 2019
Poem by Mason O’Hern
A cento from the poetry of Kevin Kantor
Some days,
my gender is a nameless grave
I am trying to soften my steel
be less howl or full moon
I am trying to write
a poem in which I am neither a monster nor a martyr
Today,
I will not apologize
when I do not know
who I am playing