[ NaPo 2017 ] [ Lesbian ] The Wonder Woman Years

    
Not many of the neighbors  
got to see how fiercely feminine  
I was in my homemade  
Wonder Woman costume  
   
but the raincoat fending off    
cold drizzle didn't slow my charge  
into battle down the sidewalks  
in the pursuit of Liberty, Justice    
and Snickers Bars  
   
I wasn't just any Amazon either  
   
As evidenced by a long
flowing black mane
courtesy of Ben Franklin  
I was Lynda Carter  
most beautiful woman ever  
to walk the face of the Earth  
   
or fly around it in her own plane    
   
My older brother and his friends  
always teased me about my    
fascination with the super heroine  
saying on numerous occasions  
Princess Diana was a dyke  
from the Island of Lesbos  
   
It was a few more years  
before I learned what    
they were giggling about  
but once I understood  
   
I loved her even more  
   
and began to love myself