Aurora Magazine 2018

educated, have the only college degree among my gradeschool friends working, dine with my stay-at-home sisters

BUT THEY DO NOT MIND

when I not only feel different, but less than, then I begin to understand

PRIVILEGE

being di-vorced may be the closest I have come to feeling what you feel as a person of color

SUDDENLY I DO NOT ALWAYS BELONG

even then, those people are not mean to me they don’t see me being different they don’t hate me

they just don’t understand I am

EXCLUDED

just me

and there you are

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