It can be difficult to maintain context in your life. At the very least, it is difficult for me. I haven’t figured out how to really compare notes with people in my life about the way we remind ourselves of the context of our lives and our daily deeds, so I’m not sure if this is a problem I face because of my childhood, or if it’s something everyone struggles with. As a child, I got very skilled at normalizing the things happening in my life. It was a key survival skill, going hand-in-hand with hiding the way I felt and learning to live with people who did not treat me well. While I’ve made a lot of personal progress on the latter two things (which will still be the work of a lifetime, rather than a labor I can reach the definitive end of), I still struggle with maybe too-readily normalizing whatever is happening in my life.
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Write Anything *In Progress*
They told me I could write anything
And foolishly I believed them.
They ooh’d and aah’d at every word
Does “them” have any non-awful rhymes?
In the years since my accolades
I’ve learned a difficult lesson
Teachers say to write what you know
But I know about as much as Jon Snow
And though I’d hate to let these lines go
They don’t fit into this poem, so…
Writing about only hetero white dudes
Gets super friggin’ boring
If I did only that
All my readers would be snoring
(Turn the above ideas
Into something that fits
The poetic form
Of the previous bits)
Witty lines to point out my growth
That reference a fresh meme
I’ve learned I can’t write everything
So I wrote this poem instead.