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lil · 4060 days ago · link · · parent · post: Today's Writing Prompt: I'd Like to Be Whoever I Damn Well Please
Your sonnet is very moving - Is this from a series of sonnets?I think to truly become comfortable in our bodies we have to accept them
or change them and then accept them. In any event becoming truly comfortable seems to take time and experience living in our bodies. This is one area that affects individuals regardless of gender -- but particularly affects transgendered people who feel VERY VERY uncomfortable in their own skin.
Yes, it is. One summer I wrote 50 sonnets. From those I pulled out a collection of 5 that I called my "Starvation Suite." They were published online but unfortunately the magazine has now gone defunct, so I don't think the other four are available for reading anywhere. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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