Called Babez Station at Shuteye Town. Click your way to heaven. Funny. I’ve been accused my whole writing life of being a misogynist. Never was. Never occurred to me my true state was relevant to the body politic. Which it most definitely now is. Flaubert would know what I was talking about. And Tolstoy. And Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Shelley. Writers like us are wholly male with a wholly female persona living within us. We are both. Like Adam, who lost a rib over it to the detriment of a great many men since.  Haven’t seen this in the proliferating gender diagrams. But we’re the only ones who actually understand the foolish notions that are being perpetuated. Why we understand a lot of things no one else does. Like the LGBTQ+ thing. Child’s play. Harmless for years, now murderous. Yes, there’s a woman in me. Why I’m posting about this here. My sexuality has been affected by the culture at large. But more importantly, by my dual nature. As a man I am completely heterosexual. I have a

This image-editing business ain’t easy… Could be you’re following up on my announcement that I am THE FIRST ALL-GENDER PERSON IDENTIFYING AS HUMAN on Earth. I know it’s a shock there could be such a person still living and breathing without a paper bag fending off hyperventilating at the thought of being merely human. Why I have prepared this set of songs that will definitely calm your little fluttering hearts and remember the wombyn within. Cranberries, “Linger” Cowboy Junkies, “Sweet Jane” Ellen Foley, “Don’t Let Go” Yang Huang, “Un Bel Di” Hazel Dickens, “A Few Old Memories” Janel Drewis,“In the Pines” Jazzy Star, “Fade into You” Nina Simone, “Black Is the Color of my True Love’s Hair” Piaf, “Ne Me Quitte Pas” Clannad, “Harry’s Game” Harry’s Game has always been my game, from both sides of the gender aisle.

My Meaner Half No Stones, no GNR, no Tom Waits, no Artie Shaw, no Sinatra. No testosterone? Hardly. What’s the other side of implication? AC/DC, “It’s a Long Way to the Top” Placido Domingo, “Pagliacci” Motörhead, “1916” The Kinks,“Celluloid Heroes” Van Morrison, “Comfortably Numb” Canned Heat, “Going Up the Country” Joe Cocker, “When the Night Comes” Peter Gabriel, “Red Rain” The Doors, “L.A. Woman” Ella Fitzgerald, “The Man I Love” The other side of implication is inference. And I couldn’t ever do a list like this without a painting by Edward Hopper.