#canadian poet

Hey You Lucy Liu by Charlie Petch | CBC Books

Entry in five-ish words

“Love in a gender neutral bathroom.”

The poem’s source of inspiration

“The gender inclusive washroom set on Ally McBeal, my crush on Lucy Liu and decolonization.”

First lines

I first saw you onscreen in the gender neutral washroom
all the lawyers shared in the legal drama, Ally McBeal 
circa 1997. You — a top floor lawyer, a swan, a revelation
Me —  merely a gaze, an unseen audience
just a closeted transmasculine teen wondering why
every washroom wasn’t like this.