Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Poem #1-2012 You Are Not Your Body

Unless you are some
Hollywood aberration
you did not make your nose
you didn’t have anything to do
with your hair’s perfection
or
the shape of your ass
or
the size or your tits
(or the size of your cock, for that matter)
and unless you’re some mad scientist,
you didn’t instruct your genes
toward society’s ideal

So why do you feel so
RESPONSIBLE for it all?

As if all of that is you?

I’d rather know if you’d
take in a stray kitten
or tell a cashier they undercharged you
or put a quarter in a stranger’s expired parking meter
or leave a waitperson a big tip “just because”
or cry at sad movies
or remember your first kiss

or if you have a quirky habit only you know about
or got the point of this poem . . .

Yair!





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5 comments:

  1. nice...so many tie up their self esteem in how they look...and base thier world on it...i would like to know similar things as that makes the person...nice write rick

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  2. Thank you, thank you, thank you! (Can I leave it at that) Fantastic writing with a fantastic message. Kindness thrives, uniqueness is celebrated, humanity improves. Power to the Poets and writes like this!

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  3. YES! loved that first stanza - and the second too for that matter - I shall have to check out this Beat Handbook too, I do love the beats! the "you did not make your nose" was a wicked line to stop me and make me smile! nice work here, I'm sure I'll be back! nice seeing it up at dVerse OT

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  4. "One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye."

    YAUTMIATW, Richard Dale.

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