(You should be) Normal

you should
you must
you will 
be
    normal

and stare at women’s breasts
and whistle at them on the street
and hit them
or rape them
if they ever disagree with you

and you'll say things like:
   “she shouldn’t have worn that”
   “she shouldn’t have gone out at night”
   “she had it coming”

one day, 
you’ll wake up
and find out,
              you’re
      normal
and judge people by how they look
or how they speak
or where they’re from

and you’ll speak in a low voice 
when saying things like
       vagina or penis or anus
and you’ll think “contraceptive” is a bad word

you’ll consider sex 
and mistake it for love
you’ll think about pleasure
and misplace it with reproduction
     (or worse, with sin)

and you’ll say things like:
  “gay sex is disgusting”
  (but lesbian porn is awesome
     if it’s there
     for your own delight)
  “gay marriage is unnatural” 
  (as if straight marriage were natural)
  “you look like a faggot dressed like that”

but be careful with normality
 for it has sharp teeth
      and a sharper tongue
   and even sharper eyes

still, one day you will think
normal is natural
normal is good
you’ll even say: “I’m normal”
    and be proud

but if normal means 
intolerant, abuser, sexist, judgemental, 
narrow-minded, homophobic, ignorant, 
real-man, stupid, unthinking, static, 
unquestioning, shallow, vague, racist, 
misogynistic, heteronormative, nonpartisan, 
hierarchical, usual, sheep, conformist, 
deformed, aggressive, macho, grey, 
reactionary, conservative, prejudiced, 
indifferent, sectarian, ungenerous, 
materialistic, simple, compliant, oblivious,

then I want nothing to do with it. 

Picture credits: Eva K. Salvi
http://www.evaksalvi.com/