Belonging

A check for $53 its in front of me

Replacing the cash I laid out last week

Buying a lamp for a friend at Costco

Since I belong and she does not.

Do you belong? Would you be a better

Person if you did or is this irrelevant, just

Noise and not signal? Certainly I’m glad to

Help out and Do my friend this little favor.

I don’t belong to any political party, always registered

As an independent. Even in college I would not

Join a frat because I was GDI. The kind of people with whom

I prefer to spend time would not belong to frats.

Or sororities, since I enjoy time with women as well as or

Even more than men. Though I spend much time these days with

Evan and he does not belong to Costco and did not join a frat

Even though he spent a decade at Uni.

Every time I typed belong in this poem I spelled it

Wrong, or incorrectly, except this last and so at least I

Belong to one useful club–humanity where no one is

Perfect, at least no the last time I looked.