I dulled my discontent in the delusion
Of superiority moral and intellectual
Imperative to prevent partial self-destruction
Emotional constipation from my
Former fast food occupation
I had to believe that I was a pearl
Swimming among swine on company time
I felt my mind contracting from the enacting
Of my arrogant disposition that poisonous position
Set me in constant opposition to my peers
And all those years in fear of being ignored
By those I deemed inferior to my interior being
I should have seen the truth of things
That I would have been better served listening
Than vehemently dismissing
I would have been a wiser human
Instead of a just wise enough to admit that
I’ve been wrong many times in the past
But hell I am still such a smart ***