AprPAD Day 23 Prompt: Social______

SOCIAL AWKWARDNESS 

I often feel like 

An outsider looking in,

Not allowed to talk.

I'm not supposed to be there; 

Maybe I should just go home.

Caren E. Salas

GOOD FOR NOTHING (Day # 18 - same)

Most people are good
Almost every thing has worth
There is a value
To sights, sounds, tastes, smells and touch
...and feelings
   Except for hate.


Caren E. Salas

LABELED (#3 a Triangle poem)

Triangles! Yellow, pink or blue
So pretty until they label you
As a recusant, a gay or Jew.

And though you try to run and hide
You won't find many on your side
They'll turn their backs, and say "I tried".

But what if those who turned away
Have triangles of their own someday.
I wonder then, what they'll have to say.


Caren E. Salas



photo: https://www.ushmm.org (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

THE "COOL" KIDS (#19 Cool or Uncool)

The cool kids tease and call her names

Trip her walking down the hall

Knock over books, pull her hair

Laugh at her should she fall.

The cool kids talk behind her back

Spreading rumors around the school

I think these kids really need to learn

A better definition of  "cool".

Caren E. Salas

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