(Note: Don't read if excess repetition annoys you.)
I'm someone who happens to have Asian ancestry.
I'm someone who happens to have female anatomy.
I'm someone who happens to have a melancholic-choleric temperament.
I'm someone who happens to have an INTJ-T Myers-Briggs/Jung type.
I'm someone who happens to have a Kerisey Mastermind classification.
I'm someone who happens to have a flute.
I'm someone who happens to have musicianship.
I'm someone who happens to have a place in my school's marching band.
I'm someone who happens to have a blog.
I'm someone who happens to have limited skill in using Adobe Illustrator.
I'm someone who happens to have chosen to learn French.
I'm someone who happens to have an affinity for rainbows and all things pink.
I'm someone who happens to have ambiversion.
I'm someone who happens to have a preference for my right hand over my left.
I'm someone who happens to have black hair.
I'm someone who happens to have olive skin.
I'm someone who happens to have dark brown eyes.
I'm someone who happens to have an obsession with temperament classification.
I'm someone who happens to have ADHD.
I'm someone who happens to have autism.
I'm someone who happens to be me.
I really like the last line. Because at the end of the day when everything is peeled away, we are just our unique selves.
ReplyDeleteThis poem was intended to be a satire on the use of the phrase "someone who happens to have...." I suppose one can interpret it your way too.
DeleteI like the last line because even though we have disabilities and labeles those don't make us who we are, we do.
DeleteLabels are words for the parts of who we are; they give us an easy way of sharing our identities. I intended this poem to be a satire on that viewpoint, not to convey it. I have yet to meet a band director call his/her concert band a group of people who happen to play wind and percussion instruments rather than a concert band or a composer who titles their music "Something That Happens to be Slow, Plaintive, and in the Key of A Minor" instead of "Sarabande in A Minor".
DeleteThat is true. By the way I made my own version of this. You can see it on my blog. I did credit you for the original idea and said that I got it from your blog.
DeleteI meant it to poke fun at excess use of person-first language instead of be a "who I am" poem.
DeleteOh,Okay. I thought it was you describing who you are while using excessive first person language.
DeleteI love it! I especially loved the line, "happens to have musicianship." Hmm... I happen to have Animalloverism!
ReplyDeleteThank you. "Happens to have musicianship" is the line that highlights this poem as satire. No musician I know would ever favor "person with musicianship" over "musician."
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