Corrective

    Each gender's half the human.
    Place no hex on either sex,
    either man or woman.
    Neither's worse.
    Place no curse.
    The situation is complex.
    Do not assume who plays the boss
    or bears the cross
    or tends to lie
    or who is tender.
    Androgenous is the eye.
    Asshole has no gender.




    Bio Note
      Steven Barza has had poems in many print journals, but this is his first appearance online. He is Associate Professsor of Creative Writing at the University of Richmond.

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