on transition

JAKE -

by mk zariel

"today you'll be a boy

& tomorrow you'll be a girl

& next year can you be a boy

for me?" says the five-year-old on

the sidewalk after he asks

the ill-fated question &

i ask him to guess, as his mother hustles him away

and i wonder if he's onto something.

mk zariel {it/its} is a trans poet, theater artist, movement journalist, and insurrectionary anarchist. it is fueled by folk-punk, Emma Goldman, and existential dread. it can be found online at https://linktr.ee/mkzariel, creating conflictually queer-anarchic spaces, and being mildly feral in the great lakes region. it is kinda gay ngl.