[Ann Drysdale]

Aslan's Curse - be what you were born...

I always take my birth certificate
in case I feel the need to urinate
and find that other Ladies seem afeared
when they observe my Brian Blessed beard.

When my apology, in booming voice
explaining that I have no other choice
makes them cry "Rape!" and "Pervert!" I can show
conclusive proof I was not always so.

But seldom do I get the chance to make
the necessary gesture. They cry "fake!"
and there's no time to make myself believed
before I am arrested, unrelieved.

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