Try to walk
with headphones in your ears and
no music. Feel the consequential
soft buzz as
everyone passes by you,
paying no attention,
worrying about
individualized, narcissistic
concerns.
While you're
left alone,
in the quiet.
Imagine walking
down a stairwell while
everyone else walks
up. Yet,
no one pays attention.
And as you walk outside,
you observe the
acorn caps.
I'm an
acorn cap. This is
how I feel most times.
No matter how
loud, how
outgoing, how
radiating my smile is,
I feel this way.
as I
count the acorn caps.