Binary
made up
of two things, two parts,
relating
to, or belonging to a system
numerical,
an umbilical cord
between
numbers. A system with two
as its
base, a pair – not one,
not
alone.
There are
two possible values here,
only
two, no more, no more complex
than a
couple, the ideal, the constant
companion,
the support network we crave.
This
bit, this binary digit, this open hand
of data,
shedding light in a complex
universe.
When
binary is fleshed out, a fingerprint,
emits a
heartbeat, it’s a system of two genders,
male and
female, assigned at birth.
But we
can go further now than binary,
into
non-binary, gender fluid, a glide
between
the two, an identity neither male
nor
female.
It is
only you. We are not the same.
We are
not data. We are individual.
And we
are not alone.
Copyright
Vickie Johnstone, April 11, 2023
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