Name: Being an Outsider
Duration: P00H00M48S
Description: A poem about not fitting in.

Being an Outsider

from A Kootenay Flower in Foreign Soil by Erin J. Bauman the Panoptical Poet

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A poem about not fitting in.

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I do not fit in
with the girls who have pink hair
and vogue scarves,
or the boys who wear skate shoes
and sweater vests
with utter confidence.

I don’t have
the artist’s sensibility
to toss around complicated words
like I use them
all the time,
discuss popular underground
writers and avante guarde painters
that you don’t hear about
at the workday water cooler
or the pub on Saturday night.

I am not artistically fashionable.
I am the odd button on an old sweater,
the extra one on the inside,
in case you lose a real button;
and I long to pull a loose thread
in this fabricated atmosphere,
unravel this place until it is nothing
but a pile
of string and useless buttons.

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from A Kootenay Flower in Foreign Soil, released November 27, 2021
Written and Read by: Erin J. Bauman, the Panoptical Poet

Recorded and Mastered by: Steve Marc/SMG Endeavors

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Erin J. Bauman the Panoptical Poet Castlegar, British Columbia

The Panoptical Poet is an environmental and social justice word warrior who ex-amines the many varying viewpoints of our current global reality.

Each poem Erin writes is an attempt at bringing to light the undervalued voices that are being silenced in the landscape of our collective conversations.

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