if jesus were alive today she’d be a black trans woman in the belly of the beast
if our cosmic power were brought to bear we’d uproot this sick system with all its insipid ideological disease
a black jesus would defend migrant families from deportation
she’d tear down the wall at the border and reinvent this oppressive nation
the scourge of transmisogyny is a toxic virus
its incipient roots and seeds are sown deep inside us
we must rise to resist and establish new community
we must organize a worldwide battle for an anti-capitalist global polity
in the name of venus as a boy–or of jesus as a femme
our samurai are cybernetic decoy–fueled by hope for exploitation’s end
i send prayers of adulation to my nascent black trans goddess
but i strive day to day to honor the trans goddesses already among us
this is a prayer for revolution in the form of poetic verse
this is a meditation on transcendent solidarity amplified and interspersed
gender is a construct that we aspire to overcome
we live to fight and live to dance–we live to rise and become one
–BYPO PHOENIX c)2017
