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Norms

by Elisabeth Barstowe — Read all 441 poems by Elisabeth Barstowe

Tuesday, February 21, 2023


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Stars in swinging motion.
Merry go round devotion.
Alternate reality conformity.
Not unlike the grey matter,
sorted out in grey chatter.
Day to day life clones,
in equal cubelike zones.

Beware the difference
for it will make you unique.
Fear the indifference
for norms, it could leak
into your life and make
you interesting, weird.
Such a thing must be feared.

In alternate reality,
different is norm.
Don't be ordinary,
 you must abide the form
of different and weird.
Ordinary the ultimate fear.

Beware of becoming mundane,
for it will make you boring.
potentially drive you insane,
keep you from soaring
high above the world,
the norm in alternate world.

Not so different after all.


 



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