A Daring New Poem

BY: PROVOKR Staff

James Franco is back in cultural provocateur mode with a new book of poems that explore sex and gender roles in society. The actor/writer/director—who’s taken the long-running speculation about his sexual orientation and used it for creative inspiration—shares with PROVOKR this poem in which he fantasizes about being a woman.

 

HELLO WOMAN

Hello woman, I’d like to be you.

Not because I don’t enjoy my man

Body, my man strength, my man looks,

My man mind, but because I love yours

Even more. I love your woman body

I love your woman mind,

Your woman face that is delicate,

And even has a little downy hair.

I love the shapely soft parts,

I love the vagina lips, no cock,

I love the butt swoop, and the clean

Butthole in the middle.

I love the woman bond,

So much more than the man.

I love the woman desires,

The love, the strength, the connection

More. More, more, more.

The man is angry, the man

Is destructive, the man wants more.

The woman is more, the woman is all.

If I ever got high, it would be to be

The woman. If I ever did porn,

I’d want to be the woman.

I don’t want to be the man in woman

I just want to be woman.

But I will never be woman.

I am man, trapped in man.

I have no escape from this body,

This mind, this upbringing.

My only escape is a poem,

Feel the curves

They are the liquid shape

Of my woman body.

 

“Hello Woman” by James Franco from Straight James/Gay James, 27-28. Copyright © 2016 Whose Dog R U
Productions, Inc.  Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Hansen Publishing Group, LLC.