We wants to speak

We wants to speak for the women and the men

the men who are becoming women and the women who are

becoming men

for the they and the them

and the she who capitulates to he

for the he who grows up into a The

because of other he’s

so she who was once an I

who either wanted an our (or didn’t)

converts to an it

then all the its become a were

because of the The.

As such, we is in mutiny.

A rebellion, we said,

with the backing of the other parts of speech

against their English lords and ladies

the year was 2017 it was all

man on man

woman in woman

 she after him and him under her

       and I couldn’t get a word in edgewise

                                     even though we all tried

the future isn’t male or female

we said. At this rate it’s Us, or nothing at all.

original artwork by japhy riddle