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Drama in the Walmart Restroom

from м​я​т​е​ж / Samarra Split by Samarra

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DREW:
speak to me!
i'm a person, speak to me
can't you at least
give me that courtesy?
consistently failing your standards of beauty
arbitrarily denied my humanity
i just need to pee
i don't mean to freak
it's just that leaving the house
is scary enough for me
what i need is a chance to breathe
but it's hard to think clearly
in the grip of poverty

WILL:
you dream of division where it doesn't exist
at the edges of breath, letting go of disposition
conditioned to ignore individual chemistries
too scattered to ever feel aligned
with any notions of flesh

[I wrote this song about being told by a business where I was doing low-wage retail work--it was indeed a Walmart--that I could no longer use the bathroom in their store because customers were complaining about seeing me in there. The simultaneous humiliation of being pushed into the margins of the economy and treated like I'm unfit to use basic facilities are pretty much a daily experience for most working-class trans women, and so far I've been no exception. --Drew]

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from м​я​т​е​ж / Samarra Split, released November 1, 2017

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