POEM: Though this is not the first time I have been shattered

Trump's back in office and I'm back to writing poetry

Though this is not the first time I have been shattered

I did not realize

that I could have my heart broken

by a country, by a season, by

the winter sun, by a walk

to the DMV, by the snowdrops bursting

from the edge of the sidewalk, by the man who

smiles at me as he passes, by his dog, even,

because what is a transsexual for, even, if not for your judgement, your

scorn, your painful envy, your throbbing