Demistyfying The Hijra Ethos Some Word Play

Demistyfying The Hijra Ethos Some Word Play, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

you were lucky
you got away
you came
you saw
you ran away
living
you life as a man
in a fucked
man s world
you passed away
we as hijras
were stuck
made
of molded
human clay
a penis gave way
to a missing vagina
on the bidet
our testes
to an androgynous god
we donated it right away
stalking girhaks
our work day
on peela house
shshh we call
them out
from the cages
by the way
man may love
be enamored
by women
he may or may
not be gay
but a hijra fuck
is what he dreams
salaam
bombay
slithering
in through
a trap door
instead
of the
front
doorway