wallflower melting into wallpaper
as the "hail fellow, well met"
hearty greetings of the others
flow past me like mercury,
deadly and uncatchable,
and I, unclubbable, shrink
into myself, paste my face
with a cheery grin to
deflect attention from
my darting eyes and sigh
as I calculate just how long
until I can leave without being rude
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