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this morning the lady across from
me in the waiting room asked me
if I was ready for things
to "get back to normal"
I smiled and shook my head
"I wasn't very good at normal," I told her.
"I'd like the give weird a bit of a try."
She blinked.
I blinked back.
things had gotten awkward
I always make things awkward
She blinked again.
I responded with another blink.
We were now communicating
through eyelash morse code.
So I blinked the following message to her:
I'm not waiting for things
to go back to normal
things are already
way too ordinary for me
to wish for it to have
any more of a hold over me
to be honest,
I'm waiting for things
to become more abnormal
normal had its time as the DJ
normal played the same songs over and over
typical's reign as the queen has gone on for so long
that her crown has begun to grow into her skin
I know you can sense it, too
this cocoon we are living in
is starting to quiver and our
skin is starting to turn into
polka-dotted butterfly wings
we are all unraveling
in the most beautiful ways
can't you feel it in your veins?
your plain blood is bleeding
itself into the sharpest pattern
of flowing plaid
you have shifted like a corvette
on an empty coastline highway at sunset
you can feel the hum deep
inside the transmission of your soul
your engine is growling with the
power of one billion angelic horses
you are now able to go from the natural
to the supernatural in under 3 seconds
you are racing toward your raw purpose
you are speeding toward your wild dream
you are no longer a bore - you are a blur
I know you can feel it, too
you are as sick as I am about pretending that
all we want is for things to be normal
normal had its age
let's give the unusual an epoch or two
this is the season
of change and
your eyes are turning
Into a sponge
soaking up
every beautiful
oddity you see
and every now and
then when your
eyes have absorbed
just enough peculiar
artwork of the divine
they begin to pour
with tears of joy
I know you can feel it
nothing is going back to the way things used to be
because our existence is a living
piece of clay being molded under
the loving hands of a cosmic potter
normal doesn't live
here anymore
it's been replaced
with the abjectly strange
and isn't that how it should be?
every day we should wake up ready
to journey into the irregular
this is the age for you
to finally embrace
the eccentric and exotic
which is perfect
because that is exactly what you are
eccentric & exotic
there is nothing like you
among the uncountable stars
you are the rarest precious gemstone
you know it
you can feel it
right under your scars
right behind your eyes
right inside of your heart
is a river of light
that has never existed before
you were created
you are abjectly and beautifully
abnormal
and that is why this age
is perfect for you
normal is out
atypical is in
and you are the loveliest
deviation from the norm
that has ever drawn a breath
and this is your time
and you are about to change the world
and I can't wait to watch
