less than ordinary
your imagination is active
fighting your instincts
to remain in the past
creating new distractions
stories you call them
telling people quite possibly
they’re autobiographical
you say you’ve seen lands
I’ve only dreamed of
but how you were able
to travel there
without passport
let alone credit
confounds me to this day
as I look on my own past
and all its duplicities
I find myself appearing less
than ordinary on the surface
and quite probably
nondescript underneath
april two thousand twenty-five
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