Normal Is...
Normal is hatred, and normal is greed
Normal is living beyond our means
Normal is the church, and normal is the steeple
Normal is profits over people
Normal is straight, and male, and white
getting pulled over if you don't look right
Normal is peacefully protesting silence
til the cops come over and incite violence
Normal is bombing abortion clinics
saving the tissue & killing the doctor
Normal is screaming at a woman walking in
preaching damnation cuz somebody knocked her up
never knowing that her heart is torn
never giving a goddamn thing to the kids already born
Normal is a crackdown in the years of election
on those bad girls who give decent, normal men erections
by mayors, chiefs, and congressmen, harry, dick, and tom
who it just so happens, late last night, were only known as, "john"
Normal is a redwood forest seen in terms of paper
Normal is a child's laughter turning into vapor as she sews in a factory for 9 cents a day
and somebody buys a t-shirt & thinks, "sixty isn't much to pay"
Normal is animals who never feel the ground
fed through tubes in cages much too small to even turn around
bred to feed a constant need for overconsumption
Normal is apathy, arrogance, and assumption
Normal is band-aids instead of prevention
birth lying down cuz of doctors' pretention
Normal is not questioning the status quo
Normal is just the way it goes
Normal's more money for prisons than schools
Normal is using the master's tools
the line between church & state crumbling like sod
Normal is a pledge to this one nation, under god
Normal is $8.50 for a movie with no plot
just advertizing, pretty stars, and not-so-special effects
Normal is incinerators poisoning the have-nots
Normal is laws against having oral sex
Normal is a euphemism coming down the wire
collateral damage, ethnic cleansing, friendly fire
til we hardly even realize that war means people die and nobody ever wins
maybe grief and madness tie
Normal's testing lipstick on a rabbit's open eye
corporations telling their news media to lie
Normal's rape your wife, she has to honor and obey
Normal's being judged by how much you fucking weigh
Normal is toxic waste and cigarettes
Normal is not cleaning up our mess
Normal is lies and hypocrisy
Normal is girls getting fucked but not wet
Normal is being controlled by fear
us versus them, and you versus me
and I’d like to say that I've seen normal...
...and honey? I'd rather be queer!
~ Arjuna Greist ~
( used with permission )