Sui Generis for my friend Philip Matogo I find myself one of a kind but I Want to live it up and not give up and die Though haunted to and having wanted to Before but no more now I know what to do Having lived it down to rise like the sun Sui generis as a species of one They tell me I fell like a star one day When there was an omen in the sky they say Freak thunder and lightning when I was born Geographically Californian A freak of nature for a unicorn Astrologically Capricornian Heretical theologically Poetical but theoretically An illogical manic-depressive Maniacally logical obsessive Paranoid schizophrenic psychotic Son of a hitman who was a poet too Rising like the sun falling like a star If you are ready for something exotic Doing my best brings out the best in me Solitarily pursuing destiny In human solidarity I find Myself one of a kind but the human kind If only in the distance from afar Quixotically sui generis But my species being human doing this Steven Curtis Lance