Prodigy

John Thompson

 

 

I wish I weren't so smart

Because then I wouldn't

Be so much better than everyone else,

But being, as I am, smarter than everyone else,

I am always filled with despair for the wrongheadedness

Of all the people who would build up enough gall

To actually treat me as another human being

Like that is important to me; I don't need anyone else

Because I have me, I am totally absorbed

In my own beautiful self that I have neither the time,

Nor the inclination to begin to think about considering the possibility of weighing my

options of...Um...yeah.