Take The Wait Out Of Wanting Less

And apply for all the positions in society
that you know you will be rejected for now.
This will enable those who were always intent
on rejecting you to complete the process sooner.
This will prove to those who seek to reject you
how obliging you are, and help them deny
how much they seek to embody rejection.

This is a council of hope, the sooner
a person gets past the potential for despair
that their seeking acceptance invites,
the sooner they can embrace rejection and lead a quiet life.

In/Tolerance

Why does tolerance so easily
come to feel so repressive?
Because as we seek acceptance,
the tolerance that we are given
marks the line between acceptance
and rejection for who we now are,
which before we were newly 'tolerated'
seemed arbitrary and over-defined.