Saturday, November 29, 2014


TOTI O'BRIEN

On Quality

Are you very spiritual? He asked.
I hesitated, ill at ease.
Are you very political? Someone else inquired years ago. I don’t remember my answer: it must have been unclear.
Are you very religious? He insists. I hold my breath.
I can tell anyway, he adds, you are very artistic.
Do I have to be very something? To possess anything in a prominent, remarkable fashion?       
I am very human, I murmur after a pause. A tad too long of a pause.
I’m afraid it sounded horribly banal.
If he knew what it took me to become
simply
that.

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