Sunday, October 16, 2011

Reflecting Pool

Airplane, 10/14/11

In the pool of diversity
I looked at my reflection
and saw
how shallow I was.

But first
I saw the child on a leash
all the women I swore to myself
were less attractive
the girl with the rainbow-hued hair
and her boyfriend in camouflage
the woman whose eyes didn't quite align.
I saw the man--
if you would even call it that--
wit the skin melting off his face,
one arm a prosthetic hook
and the other, severed knobs.
I saw his hair--straw, false, doll-like
eyes that had deteriorated into salmon-colored beads.
My first thought:
not human
alien
dangerous, soulless.
And as I secretly prayed
to the god I don't have
that I would not be forced into contact with that man,
I realized

I am the one who is
not human

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