NORMAL
Lately
This thought occurs to me
I have spent the last 46 years
Passionately seeking “NORMAL”
Does one ever truly understand its meaning?
By what measure do I gauge?
Is it enclosed within a white picket fence?
Possibly
The third shift at the local mill?
Do church goers create the bar?
(Yes, pun intended)
How about our civic leaders
Do they possess the secret?
There must be a hidden code
Two car garage
3.2 Kids
Life in the suburbs
Somehow
I just don’t think so
Very slowly
I learn
Absorbing truth
Like a mushroom
Are you still with me?
NORMAL
Is precisely
Where I am right now
Tomorrow
It shall change
To where I will be then
My goodness
Such relentless pursuit of an adjective
“Conforming with”
“Adhering to”
“Typical”
(Heavy sigh)
Perhaps
I never was
Or
Ever shall be
And that’s just fine with me
© Bill Grimes Jr. 2005
