April 24, 2023 · 3:34 pm
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No Such Thing – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” Alfred Adler

No Such Thing

Who drew the line,
that thing - 
normal?

name the author of this tale,
this fabrication,
a fiction that runs in straight lines,
ignoring the pendulum
in a spectrum of life,
that moves to places where
lines don't exist,
are redundant,
constantly moving,
realigning.

When definitions fail,
and pigeon holes cease,
labels collapse,
nothing
is normal.


Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon
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17 responses to “No Such Thing – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon”

  1. d.a.simpsonwriter
    April 24, 2023 at 3:56 pm

    Superbly evoked 👏👏👏

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  2. msjadeli
    April 24, 2023 at 4:47 pm

    Relativity opens the cage of normal…

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  3. Liz Gauffreau
    April 25, 2023 at 2:13 am

    I think we each need to define normal for ourselves.

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  4. equinoxio21
    April 25, 2023 at 11:06 pm

    Not much “normal” left is there? 😉
    As a market researcher I can only remember that it is just a statistic. The normal law. Later to become a norm…
    (Was NormaN Mailer “normaL?) 🤣

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    • pvcann
      April 29, 2023 at 9:05 am

      Lol, Mailer was sure different in many ways. There is little of an agreed norm these days, but I wonder we just covered over difference in the past?

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      • equinoxio21
        May 1, 2023 at 12:23 am

        Agreed norm… Hmmm. No. Not much left. I take my hat off when I go into a church. And I force tourists to take their caps, hats off… 🤣
        Covered? You probably have a very strong point there. There was probably more respect for others’… opinions? Beliefs? Maybe behaviours were more homogeneous too? The thing now, is that “YOU need to agree with ME”. All the time. And ME is the operating word…

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      • pvcann
        May 1, 2023 at 12:41 pm

        Spot on Brian – it’s currently all about “Me”, waiting for that to end (hell might freeze over).

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      • equinoxio21
        May 3, 2023 at 1:34 am

        It might, it might… My revised interpretation of war (given what is happening in Ukraine) is that war might be the consequence and “treatment” of “me-ism”. Once it’s over, the survivors tune it down a tad and swear it will never happen again… 😓

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      • pvcann
        May 3, 2023 at 3:37 pm

        Meism on a grand narcissistic scale for sure. Toned down and revered.

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      • equinoxio21
        May 4, 2023 at 6:42 pm

        Indeed. A few years ago I wrote and presented a paper at a market research Congress called “Narcissus and the Brand”. I analyzed and – hopefully – evidenced how brands worldwide were increasingly promoting Narcissism in their communication and advertising strategies.
        I should go back to the article and update it. LOL.

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      • pvcann
        May 4, 2023 at 10:52 pm

        That is a very telling piece of research, chilling, and look where we are now. That song comes to mind – All About That Bass – a retitle – It’s All About that Me.

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  5. Astrid's Words
    April 26, 2023 at 12:57 am

    Normal is a guideline to walk upon to discover authenticity. It only remains if we don’t choose to move.

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  6. lync56
    May 28, 2023 at 12:03 pm

    So so true

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