anomalous us Kevin Thornton

anomalous us

kevin thornton

It’s a wonderful word, anomaly. According to the dictionary its meaning in astronomy is the distance from a perigee of a planet or a satellite. (I think it does, I hope it might).

Elsewhere it’s an oddity. A single inconsistency. “Incongruous,” you say? I do. A quirk or freak occurrence too. A variation, rarity, or strange peculiarity.

To be divergent, different, odd, is unacceptable, per quod. Conform instead. Society eschews irregularity. Preferring bland, analogous. Boring, disingenuous..

Conformity’s the road we seek? Fuck that I say. Forswear the meek. Embrace all abnormality. Be the difference, you and me. I hope what’s truly anomalous is each and every one of us. northern canada collective society for writers statement of purpose: To publish and support the work of writers in northern Canada.

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