Godly Intersex

too high too fast, going to break our necks
everything about you screamed of godly intersex

nothing of thirds, berdache,
no human tracks, the new forms were germinating
I saw your aureole wax

we danced for victory
we danced for mom’s misery
we danced for miscarriages
we danced in garbage too

you, everybody’s stoned about you
everybody’s thrown about you
everybody’s stoned about you

I was running from home to school
to home trying to keep my parents together
heir to their chaos there was such pressure to score high
so I had to drop it
as if I stood a chance after my uncle’s suicide
everybody looking at me to succeed him as the family’s golden myth
while all my identity mutations were being dosed by books and all the drugs I tookto prove I was brave but I was so afraid of the depths without measure
you are my greatest treasure
yeah I had like zero pleasure until you excused me from your archetype

you, everybody’s stoned about you
everybody’s thrown about you
everybody’s stoned about you


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The Berdache, or two-spirit people, are Native Americans who are/were said to house both a male spirit and a female one. You could go as far as saying that they indeed represent "the Godly Intersex."
Obviously they now are the subject of many gender studies theses, but to get a good overview of what berdache represents, head over to this blog , which explains it way better than I ever could.