Poetry: I wonder - by Shmigs Friggenbaum

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by Shmigs Friggenbaum

Created on: August 29, 2009 Last Updated: August 08, 2011

I wonder...

How would the cashier react,
if I answered honestly,
when asked,
"How are you today?"

If, for once, I chose to ignore the compulsion to trade trite for trite,
to maintain normalcy?
I wonder...

What would this world look like?
Without a hackneyed protocol for social interaction?
A world where adherence to a common thread is not encouraged?
Propriety stowed away?

...'I'm good how are you,' I take my Coke, and I wonder.

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