I
I was sent home today
for wearing brown pants
I'm 29 years old
almost 30
I have a college degree
not that I think
having a college degree
makes me better
than anyone else
I've met some high school drop-outs
that are geniuses
and college grads
that can barely wipe their own ass
but still
I have gray hairs
and I was sent home
for wearing brown pants
by a good man
an ex-gangbanger
who turned his life around
who's the kindest soul in the world
and didn't wanna send me home
for wearing brown pants
instead of blue pants
but had to do
what he had to do
and I don't hate him for it
I don't hate anyone
I don't hate the pants
they're brown
and they didn't know
I don't hate the customers
they certainly don't got to a museum
expecting astronauts and severe weather exhibits and blue pants
I don't hate myself
they're pants
II
When I got to work the next day
the Omnimax projector
had broken down
the show was canceled
and all the customers
were filing out of the theater
the bosses stood there
None of them knew how to fix it
but they had blue pants on
They had followed
their own rule
they looked good
as the tourists walked out the door
and never came back
© 2010 Lee Kitzis
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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