poem Everyone Else, a poem about trying to reac out to people but still feeling alone, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Everyone Else
Janet Kuypers
5/7/12
I sit here regularly
at the corner of the bar
by myself
and I order drinks
for myself
and I bring
my laptop
so I can work
and I bring
my Wall Street Journal
to read
I flip the pages open
flambouyantly
and I drink
periodically
I butt in
join conversations
when I can relate
and we talk
for a few
and
then I go back
to my beer
by myself
you know,
a part of me
thinks
that I’m
above
everyone else
that I’m smarter
than anyone else
but I don’t
think
but I
don’t think I
have those aires
so I sit here
at this bar
that I come to
regularly
and wonder
why
right now
I’m all alone

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