The Lancean Specificity
If Counterintuitively
It used to be the princess and the pea
Was how it was and because it was me
Who was if counterintuitively
To play the princess in the story when
I was to I was very wary then
Of anything that might have bothered me
For anyone who might have mothered me
In the wrong story again and again
When mattresses of my mind smothered me
Othering myself my self othered me
So I came to become another one
Became some other someone else begun
Someone not very wary anymore
Because no princess while meanwhile the pea
With no one left then to be wary for
Bothered by nothing and mothered by none
In its own story becoming to be
Was me if counterintuitively
+Steven Curtis Lance
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