Epigram ‘n Aphorism Samwiches

Square Or Round Or...

The whole world filled with suckers
looking for something to follow.
Here I am at your doorstep,
a basket-baby reject by those
who would not raise a demon.

Will you rear me, let me stray
onto your carpet into your philosophy?
Pleading, tell me how and
what's right. Why do I bear
such shame in helpless plight?

You take me in, your odd duckling
who blindly follows you deep in night
Sure to belong, never wrong
to carry on your purposed fight.

A world full of suckers live by rules,
sometimes recanted philosophy.
You say square pegs don't fit
in round holes, just like me, who
dares nibble fare at your mediocre table.

Questions aim, while looking in your eyes,
sequestered so long in a dimming room,
divided by the maddening wall from
what you believe is best for me,
and what I know is right

I'm a sucker, your bastard child, alone
divided. A round peg in your square hole.
You never knew me all along
as I'm to learn beg forgiveness
for my acquired possession.


6.27.21
29 lines
your may hear rhyme, but mostly assonance in this free verse piece. You didn't think I'd conform, did you?
Just the beginning of a new fight, roughly done for now. Fresh eyes tomorrow.


Kenelm Chillingly asks, "Does it not prove that no man, however wise, is a good judge of his own case? Now, your son's case is really your case —- you see it through the medium of your likings and dislikings, and insist upon forcing a square peg into a round hole, because in a round hole you, being a round peg, feel tight and comfortable. Now I call that irrational."

The farmer responded, "I don't see why my son has any right to fancy himself a square peg ... when his father, and his grandfather, and his great-grandfather, have been round pegs; and it is agin' nature for any creature not to take after its own kind."

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Kenelm Chillingly, His Adventures and Opinions[

from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_peg_in_a_round_hole

On any day you can learn something, unlearn it, learn correctly and move on. But, who's going to correct us? - Brian K. Compton

Thank you Rilo Kiley for singing me through this.

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