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"The WomanChild Papers"

Not Normal

I hate it when I get cut flowers
they will only die
after aggravating my allergies

anyone who gives me chocolates
is clearly attempting
to provoke a migraine

for this, I am considered strange
an ungrateful weirdo
a ball-breaking bitch

so strangers bearing gifts
are an unwelcome sight
I accept them with what grace I can muster

"That's not normal"
"Are you sure you're a woman?"
"What's wrong with you?"

still there are those who seek to improve
my life by surrounding me with flowers
and forcefeeding toxic levels of chocolate

these are the people who seek to destroy me
while proclaiming their earnest good intentions
then beat their chests in frustration when I get deathly ill

I almost lost a friend today, one who did not
realize that I am an alien life form
and was revulsed when I was forced to reveal myself

I thought he understood that I am not normal
that I exist on a slightly different plane
I thought that's why he loved me

apparently somehow I fooled him
and he made the mistake of applying
"the normal" to my myriad eccentricities

that will always make me seem lacking to ordinary mortals
angels and poets don't live within those parameters
we have different guiding principles

I'll go crawl back in my hole now
until I manage to regenerate my human skin
I'm quite cold without it

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