I normally don’t use the word.<\/p>\n
I mean, how could I?<\/p>\n
Whose standards, yours or mine?<\/p>\n
Whose conventions, society’s or family’s?<\/p>\n
Definitions slide off a palm like silken scarves,<\/p>\n
the meaning lost in context.<\/p>\n
Two years ago, we hugged,<\/p>\n
two years later, I peered at you,<\/p>\n
searching your eyes,<\/p>\n
fearing the demons within.<\/p>\n
Once, if you loved too much,<\/p>\n
you went to jail.<\/p>\n
Now, your hate prison corners you.<\/p>\n
And truth your mother taught you<\/p>\n
turn lies to the spring winds,<\/p>\n
shifting, like the dying fall leaves.<\/p>\n
Chameleon, snakeskin shed,<\/p>\n
twist of fate, kiss of death,<\/p>\n
what do you call it?<\/p>\n
It’s the new new, old as time.<\/p>\n
What’s normal?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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