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Parental Failure

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Parental Failure

 

But I like wearing dresses mummy?

 

You can't dear

 

Why mummy?

 

You're a boy

 

???

 

But I like wearing boys clothes mummy?

 

You can't sweetie

 

Why mummy?

 

You're a girl

 

???

 

20 years later

 

I like dressing as a woman mum

 

(I've failed as a parent)

 

I like dressing as a man mum

 

(Failed again)

 

 

Don Matthews August 2019

 

 

but my right fingers don't work in the scissors mummy?....

 

neither do mine?....

 

We all use our right hands when using scissors children

 

???

 

◄ Haiku Homework (Grade 1)

SMILE CVN'T ! WHY CVN'T ? ►

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Don Matthews

Fri 30th Aug 2019 13:42

Lisa - me at my sexiest best

Ruth - I was in Singapore many years ago and the drag queens had their own street, since pulled down. You are right, they can be quite stunning. Seems this is still quite a feature of Singapore

https://sgmagazine.com/nightlife/news/meet-4-drag-queens-competing-next-drag-wars-singapore-crown

Chrystel - my dress doesn't fit anymore. I've grown in all the wrong places

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Lisa C Bassignani

Fri 30th Aug 2019 10:49

Don, is that you in the photo??
Never be ashamed of who you are...you go girl!

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Ruth O'Reilly

Fri 30th Aug 2019 09:42

What's so distressing
About this cross dressing
Is half the time
The men scrub up
Better than
Real women?

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Chrystel Roberts

Fri 30th Aug 2019 09:37

I say, if the dress fits, wear it!

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Don Matthews

Fri 30th Aug 2019 09:33

Jon! You're now head-on and smiling! Thanks for the poem like.....

Philipos

Fri 30th Aug 2019 09:18

Interestingly put - 50 shades of white equating to 50 types of hormonal variations in probably most everyone we see around us. I did a casual study of this topic at one time as part of a wider reading programme I was on, and found that our animal and insect kingdoms seemingly presented similar variations. I think generally speaking, people more readily accept the scenarios, probably given the likes of the brilliant wartime code breaker Turin.

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Don Matthews

Fri 30th Aug 2019 08:54

The same ideas were expressed in an earlier poem of mine:

No you can't be Spiderman
"Why not?" You are a girl
"I like to play with boyish things
Give boyish things a whirl"

No you cannot play with dolls
"Why not?" You are a boy
And boys don't play with girly things
"Just like them for my toys"

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keith jeffries

Fri 30th Aug 2019 08:44

A good one, which says a lot
Keith

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