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When I was 11 or so...I talk about...So Philly is my home hands down all that kind of stuff
when I was 11 though I was living in
a rural town in South Jersey
so when I was in a rural town in South Jersey
I didn't know what the word gay was, what trans was what *** was
but I knew that whatever I was dealing with in the world I was going to hell. So I learned that
pretty quickly.
so this is a poem that I wrote pretty recently based on just some really great people in my life
that I've gotten to know
over the years..umm and this is called Josephine.
(From audience: Let's go)
She asks if she can talk to me about Jesus at 3 am on the C-train
Because something about my *** face means clearly I am on a path straight to Hell
I have come to expect this type of behavior from strangers
at least once a week since the first time I was exorcised at 16.
But today I've grown tired and I've decided It is my turn to proselytize
So before you do all that I want to know from you
Have you heard the good word About Joseph of Genesis
See Joseph Josephine Jo of Genesis Favorite child of Jacob A.K.A
Israel, when asked what you wanted you desired
one thing: a kethoneth passim. Pastor called this a royal coat...
And Jo I had never read the Bible before Found you And kept reading
Josephine I got to 2nd Samuel And realized your coat of many colors Was a princess dress
Joseph Your father must have really loved you
Because he got it for you And you wore it with pride
Jo When your brothers saw you in your flowing dress
your glory They became enraged I'm sorry for the beating you received
Sorry they destroyed your dress And smeared it with the red paint of your swollen veins
Josephine Did you know they told your father you were dead
So he'd never come looking for you Never knew your brothers Sold you as a slave into Egypt
And after you were stolen from your home fields The earth dried up Jo The very ground on which you walked
mourned the loss of its genderqueer child And all the plants died And the animals no longer had the will to live
Josephine Your family nearly starved
Saw the formation of ribs
Where once there grew flesh And belly fat
And they hungry and desperate traveled into Egypt
And what must they have seen Jo?
See in Egypt people discovered you Not as a *** Not as tranny
They saw you in totality You went from slave To leader over lands There you were Josephine
As you As magnificent
Your family couldn't even recognize you through the glare of divinity
But you saw them shivering in fear waiting to hear what this regal leader might say
Wondering if your spirit would see fit to grant them the grain needed to survive And Joseph
love broke through the darkness of resentment
and for the first time your family saw you as you as Magnificent for it was your word
that saved them from starvation
Dear Joseph of Genesis aka Josephine aka Jo
I am claiming your story for every *** kid told that we are unholy
For every *** told in order to love we must let our faith die
I am going to put it in a pocket over my heart
Next to Ruth & Naomi Next to David & Jonathan
Next to Haggai & Deborah And seat them at the last Passover With Jesus and Lazarus
Yes I am taking Jesus with me too... Dear pastor:
to you who claims your words are from God but whose book is pledged to King James
Know what allegiances you keep
You've been lying about my people for too long