If you could be the one
to command the attention
of the center of the culture
and make him beg to break
that culture, defy it. Deny it.

If you could be the one to encourage
all forms of difference
in all sorts of people
to be mocked and questioned
and hated
for what you’ve done
for generations.

If you could be the one
to be central to the culture
by being apart from it.

You, then.
You get a ballad, too.