"Sometimes it isn't time for so long I forget what I'm hoping it's time for." -Suzanne Buffam, from The Irrationalist

Portal

You’ll walk into the house

and you’ll be told

sweetheart don’t be scared

you’ll be sat down

in the middle of a dark

room that looks like your

childhood room

but like a slightly

larger version

in fact everyone

in the room seems

slightly larger than

they should be

the one that looks like your mother

the one that looks like your father

the one that looks like you

you’ll ask

what this is all this about

you’ll be told

sweetheart don’t be scared

we’re just going to make you

more human

and the one that looks like your mother

will start poking you in your temples

and the one that looks like your father

will start stepping on your feet

and the one that looks like you

will stick a finger in each of your nostrils

and it will be an overall unpleasant

experience

but you will realize that

to be more human

isn’t anything more

than being poked and stepped on

and having fingers in your nostrils