Book Of Poems

Normal And Odd

What does normal mean?

Is it just a setting on a washing machine?

Is it the same normal learned in Physics and Math,

where the one line is best friends with another and a 90° angle who comes every time?

Could it mean there are no defects in an object of use or an organism of life?

A dike where no holes exist for water to willingly seep slowly through,

flooding a free village, unsettling the normal schedule of life

Is that considered normal?

Is it possible for normal to be what humans believe is perfect or beautiful?

Or is it what characteristics we believe are the best to have?

But then what about the definition of odd?

Some believe it is the opposite of normal.

But in Math and Physics, odd doesn't mean a line that is not perpendicular to another.

Odd refers to numbers not divisible by 2, but we use those numbers every day, so they are normal to us.

Odd could mean there is something different, but ants are different from humans,

Yet we consider them normal to our life.

Or different people have different ideas, characteristics, or personalities,

Yet we consider them normal at times.

Architecture can be beautiful and perfect in its own way and shape,

but looks different from other buildings in the environment,

So it is normal and odd

The humans supposedly surrounded by normal and odd,

Everything is normal and odd in our world