Poetry|Life Lessons|Mindfulness

Norm the Normal

A Happy Guy

Blue Insights
Published in
1 min readApr 18, 2024

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Why is Norm so happy?
Not because he’s drinking
a frappe.

Norm has been set free
from a lifestyle of
“greed.”

Norm questions…

How many shoes
can I at one time
wear?

How many meals
can I eat or prepare?

The more I have,
the more I become
a slave falling into
a material lair.

Norm caters to his
needs with an
occasional want,
but always has
plenty to share.

Norm the Normal
is happy indeed,
never giving heed to the
harsh reality of
greed.

© Rita Duponty
April 2024

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