Salt and Pepper

Measure the world up to size,

categorize and classify.

Sort and label:

salt from pepper,

sugar from salt.

All kept at a comfortable

distance - shelved

in their places and

labeled distinctly,

for free-functioning life.

I don’t fit into your salt and pepper paradigm.

Spilled my grainy substance through

table cracks and mixed,

irreparably,

foreign matter with mine.

I’m strange. All too strange for you.

--Alicia (2010)