non-conformity
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“Pick a side,” they say.
I laugh.
I don’t get to pick.
I have always been taught to pick the right side.
Never to question.
But I’m curious.
The wrong side looks...
New.
Fresh.
Lou Reed,
once recalled
a misadventure
whether real
or imagenery,
exagerated
I do not know...
and the anecdote
is of dodging
beer bottles
causing riots
in every city...
the ice learned that she did not have to be rigid like the earth she clung to.
laughing,
calling out for themself,
they reached out,
let the sun in,
How hard can it be?
To get up and face the world
and swim against the current
while a storm begins to brew.
To swim throught the swirling media
bombarded by infromation at all time,
he said she said,
