Me, a thing-with-features In the world of things-with-features Learn to see myself as I’m seen To mould myself to the aspirations Of family, church, and community To preserve this precis of myself with Its roster of injunctions to obey To constantly prove to myself And anyone who will listen That I am what I intend to be Now mortified that a vital fragment Of myself has been stripped away in A little death, a moment of unreality That this amazing technicolour Dreamcoat worn with pride Was cut for someone of a Different size, shape, and stride