Scott Simpson · Poetry
A Better Kind of Strange
Use For Kindling · source pages 80, 81
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Source page 80
A Better Kind of Strange
I’ve always loved the idea
of not being what people expect
me to be. Not the fixer. Not the flame.
Not the hook, the charm, or the ache.
Let me be strange in the way
that heals. Let me be honest,
even if it’s lonely. Let me not be
your hero or your wound.
Let me be the silence after
the shouting has passed—
Source page 81
the clean break,
the better kind of strange.
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