a rose by any other in poetry

if you can memorize the new players on your sports teams
people you’ll never meet, every year, you totally have
the brainpower to remember not to deadname the people
you actually know in your actual really-real life

if you know that your team’s quarterback is
no longer Chunk Blastington the Third
your team’s quarterback is now Rip Hardtack
you can easily know to now
call Denis Denise
call Erica Eric
and so on
whatever

if you can’t at least make the effort
with humans you are sharing space with
that you to for athletic millionaires
in a city a five hour drive away who
wouldn’t spit on you were you ablaze
maybe, sunshine
maybe you are the snowflake