Dr. Balance (Mediocrity)
Published in
Feb 6, 2023
Renegade Oddities, №4
From a mild dose
of neurosis
he makes antidotes
for foolishness.
From the scales
that blind a fool
he forges backbones
for the spineless.
But all he had were giggles
for those
who begged him
for
the cure
to mediocrity.
They asked:
“are you not a healer?”
“Indeed I am;
there is no cure for mediocrity.”
“Are you a mediocre healer?”
“Would it matter if I was?
There’s no cure for mediocrity.”
What they failed to understand
was the nature of disease:
No difference exists
between
what kills
and
what cures;
disease is the excess
or
the lack of it.
Mediocrity:
dreamers who dwell in it
become fools
if unaware,
or
bitter cowards
if they linger
and they know it.
