What Rough Beast | Poem for January 23, 2018

Irene Cooper
Cut

To be funded the vulnerables
must expunge all entitlements
Of course transgender is a no-go
Evidence-based diversity
is not a thing & science-based is
a science fiction fetus never wrote

A fetus never wrote
in support of the vulnerables
The thing about science-based
is not to expunge the entitlements
Evidently diversity
functions to make transgender a no-go

If transgender is a no-go
then what the fetus wrote
in evident diversity
of fundamental vulnerables
is expunged with the entitlement
& not a thing is science-based

If not a thing is science-based
can transgender be a no-go
& who will sponge on the entitlements
a science fiction never wrote
Not the foundlings of the vulnerables
in evident diversity

Despite evidence of diversity
no thing that is science-based
can be funded for the vulnerables
& transgender stays a no-go
in the science fiction that is wrote
to stay the funding of entitlements

Sponging foundling entitlements
is endemic to diversity
Of the fetus what can be wrote
to make a thing so science-based
evidentially erased, a no-go
defunded of transgressions, & of vulnerables

No unwrote erodes entitlement
What is vulnerable in fathomless diversity
is not science-based & transcendence, but no

 

Irene Cooper’s poems have appeared in The Feminist Wire, Poems in the Aftermath, What Rough Beast, and Verseweavers. Cooper lives, writes, and cooks in Oregon, is a fierce advocate for public school, arts curricula, accessible health care, any available toilet, and the popular vote, among other things. She believes that language is imperfect, and so, miraculous.

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