What Is Normal? Poem by CHRISTOPHER MUDIENYI

WHAT IS NORMAL?
Right after the long years in college,
I gain meaningful knowledge,
To debunk stereotypes,
Leading the archetypes,
That is the old normal.
But do you know the new normal?

The new normal is abnormal,
The new normal is so formal,
That the old normal is informal,
A new normal so paranormal,

Thickness of the head,
Very normal, super normal,
Thickness of the skin,
Just like any other normal,
Stolen normalcy, so normal,
This abnormality, so abnormal,
But to them absolutely normal,

Is that what the school teaches?
Is this where society stretch reaches?
That we acquire abnormal riches,
Even if to the poor we are witches?
With riches that make us abnormal witches?

We can comfortably loot,
This is beautiful music from the flute,
Our ways through systems we fluke,
Without care like the liver fluke,
We suck justice from the poor as they look,
They look at us and what they see is a crook,
Whose ways are wayward,
Without a way forward,
And you call this normal?
Are you normally sick?
You must be abnormally thick!

My hands are tightly tied, so I say,
Do I want another day just like the other day?
And feel like it is another normal day?