PAD 2: Outsider
Prompt was "Outsider" - and this is... eh, not as good as I'd like.
The nerd slips off the surface of lunch tables
Like water against soap bubbles
(Lipids have a hydrophilic and hydrophobic end)
Invisible, delicate, and inevitable
These social chains harder than steel
(Carbon fiber has a tensile strength ten times that)
We take comfort in knowing things
And pretending the others don't
(Pretend they care we exclude them back)
Pretend we don't twist the beautiful knowledge
Into a spear for our hurt.
The nerd slips off the surface of lunch tables
Like water against soap bubbles
(Lipids have a hydrophilic and hydrophobic end)
Invisible, delicate, and inevitable
These social chains harder than steel
(Carbon fiber has a tensile strength ten times that)
We take comfort in knowing things
And pretending the others don't
(Pretend they care we exclude them back)
Pretend we don't twist the beautiful knowledge
Into a spear for our hurt.