We Are All Exceptions

May 19, 2014

It’s hard to throw a mind onto paper.

Perhaps it may burst open

in the most unpleasant way,

dripping through to who-knows-where.

Perhaps it may shatter into a thousand pieces,

undecipherable even to its owner.

We realize but we don’t.

Is this me? You? Who?

So we give ourselves a shape.

I am triangle, she is square.

And thus we are –

satisfied?

We grow fond of specificities –

rules –

limits.

Don’t we?

And yet

we are all exceptions.

Gay, straight, other

Christian, atheist, other

White, black, other

Male, female, other

I am myself.

You are yourself.

And we are all exceptions.

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