This was outstanding, absolutely excellent,

Reindeer

"Incongruity becomes a life-style"

Erin you blew me away with this piece!
Incredible.

dear Erin-Reminds me of the old song twos the lonliest number since the number one. How people define logically what they want for their souls searchng....find themselves an abode-prison at the dark end of the tunnel, making a way of life of normally transient lived heartaches. Society is drifting further and further from the natural-leaning on and passing the buck for their own self-caring to something that does not exist. The air gets thinner , people more neurotic, and the expression about a lot of fish in the sea dwindles to depemdancy and the unlighted end of things where we mistaking are hanging our hats. Surmountable insecurities turning into a permanent shortening of our future potentials and self gratifications. Personal lies - what are we afraid of-people like evolution only continue on with periods of isolation, incubation and change though we can never know the future, avoiding the truth can only bring bad fortune. Though I have not studied biology in a long time i have heard they have gotten DNA to add subtract multiply and divide in a test tube-it is very old and we should trust it(our own brains have a separate mind of their own that we should not war with).
I liked you poem as it gets right to the heart of things-the importance of self honesty and people always leaning to short term gratification.

Marvin

Nice write. I love the opening as well as the incongruity becomes a life-style line. Enjoyed.