Variance
Do you find it sad
that we are encouraged
to stay away from our own
strange spaces?
That what we know
is given more value
than what we don't know
or what is gray and
difficult to say?
That we are asked
to use words the way
that everyone uses words
and never stray towards
our own pronunciations,
our own definitions?
That we are taught to walk
on safe, familiar, and
predetermined paths?
That we measure twice
and never improvise?
That our personalities,
the checklists of ourselves,
are trusted when they
are steady, reliable, normal?
That we care what others,
people we don't know, think
and so we consider things
like re-sale value before we
paint a wall black with flames
or a ceiling two shades of blue?
That we believe the things
they say are true
must, therefore, be true?
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