notes on three quotes

Three quotes that were popular on my day of this year,

The first:

"Too much perfection is a mistake"

Attempted sympathy that a cynic turned near optimist choked down

with three grapes,

and a bite of too ripe nectarine, 

and two rolls of her left eye. 

Sixteen years working to see that

striving for perfection will get you three steps from nowhere,

but accepting that your own perfection exists,

is a peace all its own, so

please keep your negativity away from me I'm

trying to make happy. 

The second:

"I am a museum full of art

but you had your eyes closed"

written by a poet turned icon,

for girls with blame seeping out of their eyelids, 

a need for someone else to be at fault for their half-shaken tickers. 

Came to terms with the idea that he saw my art, 

and decided it wasn't for him. 

The last:

"For the ones who dream of stranger worlds."

Music stopped playing, or didn't, but I can't hear it-

our world is strange enough

men who protect are killing because they are scared of a color,

men who rule will not let the bravest protect because they came out, 

men fight over land that

was not ours to begin with 

land that 

we cannot claim,

it is shared amongst,

you and i, and the honeybees, butterflies.