Life's a Drag!
"We were born naked
everything else is just drag."
Ru Paul
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They said my head was led astray
that people shouldn't really feel this way
and deep beyond this grief and strife
I had the makings of a 'lovely wife!'
'Just pimp and preen...go on fuss yerself!
Buy yourself some clothes
Could I just mention, pay some attention
Your feet! You can't step out in those!'
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They tried to coach me, had to coax me
to be their kind of girl
fit in the current format and join that social whirl
But the smell of leather lured me home
to the glitzy bars and sleeze
frequenting tacky plastic parties
where wayward women tease
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And when in home, do as the homos do...
So I learned to strut my stuff
the shrinks said I was a 'classic case'
and that they'd had enough
they told me then that I was doomed
my future would be bleak
with social isolation, gay suicides each week
'People like you can't be content
with so much public scorn,
give up your gender-bending turn to God...or just conform!'
Yes! There's methodist in my madness
But I'm looking to the Pope
Kissing airports wearing frocks
Cross-dressing...he's my only hope!
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Life's A Drag! by Julie McNamara.
This is a 45-minute musical comedy piece using
poetry, narrative and songs, 1 performer, 1 backing track and
a plethora of tinsel.
The piece is in three short scenes introducing
three characters that together create Hairy O’Mara, the
failed drag queen. The central character, Hairy O'Mara was dreamed
up after a scurrilous reviewer in the Gay press described Julie
as: 'The Mary O'Hara of the Lesbian and Gay circuit!' Resisting
that image of the squeaky-clean torch singer, she turned it
on its head and Hairy O’Mara was born. Hairy is an angst-ridden
female impersonator whose looks are beginning to fade. Life
is cheap on the drag circuit and queens are two-a-penny. Hairy
is on a desperate search for a new turn to lift his/her flagging
career.
"The show is all the more poignant given
that Julie spent some years in the psychiatric services undergoing
treatment for homosexuality and Gender Dysphoria! Well having
seen the show, I can't say the treatment was a great success..."
(Anja White)
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So YOU want ME wearing frillies?
Put some ribbons in these curls?
You'd prefer me wearing make up
That Tweed perfume for girls?
So...No more pills and potions
The medication's done?
If I wear frocks and sit on cocks
Psychiatry has won !
Will you let me off the hook then
And give me back my life?
Wipe the records? Pronounce me 'Normal'
If I become the little wife ?
One more hopeful patient
successfully discharged
smeared in shady baby lippy pink
Another Lesbian at large! !
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