What?
You don't recognize the label
On my shoes
Neither do I
That's why
I'm so happy, ‘cause
It didn't cost me much
To be different
From all the sameness
And the shameness
They try to tack on
You.
~ Laurence Overmire
(Previously published in The Short North Gazette, Columbus, Ohio, Nov.1998)
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