please let me be
stop afflicting me
with all your fashion flimsies
premeditated to make me silly
please let me be
don’t make me the butt of all jokes
my reticent heart is allergic
to pretenses and not used
to utter thoughtlessness
just please let me be
i wanna be in a gentleman’s embrace
where flying is an opportunity and
love is a clothe for my veiled insanity
written 10-14-2002