Everybody knows

the small world of everybody
has tight constraints:
what you can do
is hemmed in by
what they will think.  What you say
must fall within the ribbon of normality
and cool — that so-illusive stance
is nice, but not required.  What’s needed is
to not be weird, nor yet a type
that they can name and shame.
to be defined
outside the lines
is simply
not an option.


©Wendy Mulhern
April 24, 2011



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