September 2020 #1 - Not every boy

[Kaje]

We had a tie this month, so here's the first picture for our creative writing.

Give us your poetry, flash fiction, drabbles or short stories - anything YA and LGBTQ.

[Drewscoach]

"Not every boy wants to be a soldier", his tattoo said. Which I'm sure confused the guys in his squad.
"Why be an Airborne Ranger if you don't want to be a soldier?", they probably thought. Never knowing the tattoo didn't speak about him, but about me.

Seeing him in a shimmering dress probably would have confused them even more. But again, that's for me, not him.
Dating a drag queen at a burlesque club is a lot easier if you're a bartender there on your time off, and he KNOWS what it does to me...

[Kaje]

Drewscoach wrote: ""Not every boy wants to be a soldier", his tattoo said. Which I'm sure confused the guys in his squad.
"Why be an Airborne Ranger if you don't want to be a soldier?", they probably thought. Never ..."

That's great - thank you <3 I like the twist you gave it.

[Kaje]

Image

Did the shine of the light on my sequins
Bring out the wry curl in your lip?
Did the sight of a guy in a silk dress
Make the chill that you fake start to slip?

You can say that you hate looking stupid
You can laugh at the height of my heels.
You can push down your jeans to sag lower.
I think you want to know how it feels.

It takes guts to walk out on that runway
But the freedom makes everything fine.
You act like you're filling your dad's shoes,
But I bet that you'd rather fill mine.

You don't have to recoil in horror
When someone suggests a pink shirt.
It really won't lose you your man card,
To cry a bit when you get hurt.

You say you're not gay. I believe you.
A silk dress won't make that a lie.
We're not all defined by our clothing.
If you want to do drag, then just try.

Or if something a bit soft and silky
Just makes you feel good- and it can,
Then dammit, just do what you want to.
It won't make you less of a man.

Those dumb gender rules are like poison
Even straight folks like you can get killed
By the word-drip like slow water torture
of "faggy" and "wimp" and "weak-willed".

It takes freaking strength to be different.
More nerve than just playing along.
Come on now, let's say it together
This dress and these heels make me strong.

Some real boys don't want to be soldiers
Their fierceness comes out as drag queens.
I've got a spare dress in my closet.
Show me you know what real courage means.

[Drewscoach]

Kaje wrote: "Image

Did the shine of the light on my sequins
Bring out the wry curl in your lip?
Did the sight of a guy in a silk dress
Make the chill that you fake start to slip?

You can say that you hate loo..."

Beautiful.