WE SHY A DISTANCE FROM THEM

   

          WE SHY A DISTANCE FROM THEM

             

               Eccentrics jump wildly into

               fiery circles, feats we consider

               foolish. Glints of yellow-blue, red, orange,

               chipping free in the figment of erratic

               oddball behavior. We shy a distance

               from them in safe zones where there is no need

               to raise hooded eyebrows or entangle

               frazzled nerves or shake our heads in disbelief.

              We are the commonplace vanillas; they,

               the standout chocolates. Though we both melt,

               one does so down the cone; the other, in

               acrobatic splatters of the bizarre.

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