Poetry For Everyday People
Please Don't Generalize
That's stereotypical,
the cowards way out,
the media's puppet,
no chance, no magic,
who do you think you are?
when you write or say:
men this or men that?
so now you've slept with
every man in the world?
so now you've had relationships
with? what? ten men? two? one? twenty eight? three hundred?
and that makes you an authority on all men?
all men?
freaking Cosmo or Young Girl Torture magazines,
they interview a hundred men and actually
think they've got a grasp on men?
they interview Chad in his New York City
penthouse?
they give advice: HIS MOST SEXUAL SPOT,
do you then buy the magazine and try touching
a guy between his eye balls and his balls
at the same time and think you're sexually
hitting his spot?
I know it sounds crazy but you will have to
treat, respond, decide, based on individuality,
not your friends experiences nor your bad experiences,
nor Cosmo experiences nor TV experiences,
what chance does a man have when they can't
prove themselves, when their locked up in magazines
selling what sells,
it makes it hard to say hello,
or tell you honestly
your smile is a heart healer,
and even though words you've never spoken before,
after you say them: "your smile is a heart healer"
you hope it isn't
one of their top one hundred pick up lines,
you hope your instincts haven't been somehow compromised,
because you're alone inside
and you mean every word you say.
the cowards way out,
the media's puppet,
no chance, no magic,
who do you think you are?
when you write or say:
men this or men that?
so now you've slept with
every man in the world?
so now you've had relationships
with? what? ten men? two? one? twenty eight? three hundred?
and that makes you an authority on all men?
all men?
freaking Cosmo or Young Girl Torture magazines,
they interview a hundred men and actually
think they've got a grasp on men?
they interview Chad in his New York City
penthouse?
they give advice: HIS MOST SEXUAL SPOT,
do you then buy the magazine and try touching
a guy between his eye balls and his balls
at the same time and think you're sexually
hitting his spot?
I know it sounds crazy but you will have to
treat, respond, decide, based on individuality,
not your friends experiences nor your bad experiences,
nor Cosmo experiences nor TV experiences,
what chance does a man have when they can't
prove themselves, when their locked up in magazines
selling what sells,
it makes it hard to say hello,
or tell you honestly
your smile is a heart healer,
and even though words you've never spoken before,
after you say them: "your smile is a heart healer"
you hope it isn't
one of their top one hundred pick up lines,
you hope your instincts haven't been somehow compromised,
because you're alone inside
and you mean every word you say.
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Please Don`t Generalize
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