22 May 2018

We All Know Someone Who...

We all know someone who drinks hot coffee in the summer heat
We all know someone who never wears coats in the winter
We all know someone who is great company but schedules farther out than a Canadian doctor
We all know someone who could start up a conversation with a deaf Chinaman
We all secretly envy this person while laughing off our own social ineptitude
We all know someone who is always down to get some food
We all know someone who is vegan
            We didn’t ask, but they made sure to tell us
We all know someone who “never really got into Pokèmon”
We all know someone, to whom the words “to who,” sound like nails upon a chalkboard
We all know someone who always has a book in their hand
We then say, “I should really read more,” before completely forgetting about it five minutes later
We all know someone who burns on a cloudy day
We all know someone who wants eight children
We all know someone who loves their dog more than their spouse
We all know someone who identifies as a couple
We all know someone who really, really likes milk
We all know someone who is perfectly pleasant, but the sound of their voice annoys us to no end
We all know someone who writes without an agenda
We all know someone who ambiguously refers to themself despite the obvious identifiers
We all know someone who restates themself to overstate the understated

We all know someone who speaks exclusively in movie quotes
We all know someone who can’t see the box we’re pointing out
            It’s right there under the table
We all know someone who swears they’ll remember this time
            They won’t
We all know someone who believes in ghosts
We all know someone who is just a little bit ignorant
We all know someone who knows someone a little bit famous
We all know someone
And we are all someone, who someone else knows

-AMS

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