Don’t Be So Quick To Judge

And the sign says 
long haired freaky people
need not apply ...
 
That librarian with her glasses and bun
might be wearing a thong under her dress
and have S&M tattooed on her inner thigh
while the girl with black lipstick
and a spiked dog collar around her neck
could be able to out-quote you on the scriptures;
 
The biker dude in his leather and chains
may have just returned from a day
of delivering meals to the homeless
and the man in his Wall Street suit,
with the perfect shave and slicked back hair
might be packing heat in his briefcase
 
The guy with that well cut grass and family van
could be leaving bruises on his wife
while screwing his secretary at work every day
but the husband sitting in the front row
at the strip club down town could be happy to be married
to the gal up there taking it all off for the crowd 
 
The rich boy on campus
riding on Daddy’s coat tails to the Ivy League
might be selling your kid his smack
while the single mother barely making the rent,
is clean as a whistle, but going hungry, 
so she can give her kids the food they need 
 
The neighbour you wave to every Sunday morning
could be watching kiddie porn for hours
before he heads out for church
while the one you peer through your blinds at in the night 
might be working two jobs just to pay
for the care his senile mother gets at the Home. 
 
You don’t know what’s under their skin,
so before you decide you know who they are
take a little time to get to know the one 
looking out at you from behind the mirror 




 
 

august 2011  
 
 



Awarded by Poetic Constellations August 18. 2011 ~ Di