Please Wait Here To Be Welcomed

En masse
we can look a bit samey
but, as we all know,
each of us is unique
so there’ll be no need to sneak
in through the back door
on that score.

Charming, though,
is another matter.
I wonder who will be deciding
if we qualify
to grace the rather quaint

(do excuse me while I
cough up some phlegm
and spit on the floor)

interior with our presence
because some of us is
and some of us definitely ain’t.


Charming!