Pome: People Grew Up
Sadly for them
People Grew Up
people grew up smart and knowing the square root of 387,445
people grew up dumb and tended parsnips on allotments
people grew up chasing a star along the northern lights
people grew up forgetting they were young
people grew up and ran from their hometown
people grew up hiding a grudge and exacting it on a different person
people grew up wishing to be butchers, members of parliament, freelance hacks, gumshoes from the pages of a roman a clef not yet scribed, silicon valley gurus, the found & lost
people grew up scoffing at themselves until the day the mirror transfixed in a flash of the light of the morn
people grew up blaming each other when it ain’t no one’s fault
people grew up and perused a pome that ran endless and told them suddenly who they
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