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Free to Be…Not Like Everyone Else
A poetic response.
Bring me your tired and mundane and foolish assumptions and inane presumptions of who and what I should be and I will turn them upside down…
Bring me your expectations and postulations and ignorant inferences of how I should look and talk and act because of the year I was born…
Bring me your dull theories and your chewed-over hunches that you spew in bunches and I’ll pull no punches in telling you that you’re full of shit…
Bring me your barbed compliments and accusing eyes and a forked tongue that tells no lies except to yourself…
Bring me the authentic, the real, the tried-and-true you who refuses to conform to the societal norm, in a world where “giving in” is the way out…
Or bring me nothing, because everything else I will stomp into dust…
I’ll leave you with this video from the Rebel Master, himself. Enjoy.
Sherry McGuinn is a slightly-twisted, longtime Chicago-area writer and award-winning screenwriter. Her work…
