IN DEFENSE

IN DEFENSE

Let’s hear it for children who can’t make the grade,

men who do yoga and don't part their hair,

long flowery skirts, soft voices, sad smiles,

muddlers, ditherers, timid types who won’t pounce,

old poems, people, houses, and shops,

misfits, crazies, loose women, short men.

Let’s ease up on the plump, the pimpled, the silly, 

the worn-out, the defeated, the below average thinkers,
plodders, shufflers, stooges, and tinkers.

Though some of us triumph, remain certain, look good,

 I humbly submit-most would if we could.