Each gender's half the human.
Place no hex on either sex,
either man or woman.
Neither's worse.
Place no curse.
The situation is complex.
Do not assume who plays the boss
or bears the cross
or tends to lie
or who is tender.
Androgenous is the eye.
Asshole has no gender.

Steven Barza has had poems in many print journals, but this is his first appearance online. He is Associate Professsor of Creative Writing at the University of Richmond.

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