I Am Not a Warm Glass of Milk

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the perfect before-bed drink that your mother used to make you or the room temperature complement to the plate of also-warm cookies or the keep your chin up type of guy and also not the smiling all the time type which doesn’t mean I am sad or angry it just means I am not a clown with a fixed emotion masking the pain below I am not a warm and fuzzy teddy bear wrapped in a chenille blanket under the tree I am a straight shooter, a truth-teller and never one to hide in a cave for fear that fragile psyches are looking for me because I’ve never been anything but myself and I’m not sorry if it doesn’t work for you because as I’ve said over and over again I am not a warm glass of milk</p><p id="d883">I know a lot of people like everything to be oh so soft and cuddly and collaborative but sometimes you just have to admit that Fred, from the office next door, sucks at his job and has bad breath and maybe if someone would tell him this he might realize what he’s been doing wrong but instead,

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the whole office tells Fred he is great and then they talk behind his back about his breath and they complain about his poor work output and they singe him in their private Facebook groups but never, ever to his face, or to their own because most people don’t like the truth especially if it’s not served next to a warm glass of milk</p><p id="03b1">© <a href="undefined">Jonathan Greene</a> 2020</p><p id="25a2">If you liked this, you might like this as well:</p><div id="5ca9" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/ive-come-to-realize-8cf2a37c596a"> <div> <div> <h2>I’ve Come To Realize</h2> <div><h3>A Poem</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*1_6PbUhdmh5gQmut)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

A Poem

It’s hard to always be yourself, but still have to remind people that not everyone likes the fluff or the candy-coated answers to all the questions of the world I like my answers strong and terse as in, I don’t want an endless path of lines to read between and a long line of strangers waiting to pat my back for something I barely did or for someone to tell me that my shirt looks good when it’s clearly on backward And because I like it like that that’s also the way I act and I just wanted to remind you that I am not a warm glass of milk

Not the perfect before-bed drink that your mother used to make you or the room temperature complement to the plate of also-warm cookies or the keep your chin up type of guy and also not the smiling all the time type which doesn’t mean I am sad or angry it just means I am not a clown with a fixed emotion masking the pain below I am not a warm and fuzzy teddy bear wrapped in a chenille blanket under the tree I am a straight shooter, a truth-teller and never one to hide in a cave for fear that fragile psyches are looking for me because I’ve never been anything but myself and I’m not sorry if it doesn’t work for you because as I’ve said over and over again I am not a warm glass of milk

I know a lot of people like everything to be oh so soft and cuddly and collaborative but sometimes you just have to admit that Fred, from the office next door, sucks at his job and has bad breath and maybe if someone would tell him this he might realize what he’s been doing wrong but instead, the whole office tells Fred he is great and then they talk behind his back about his breath and they complain about his poor work output and they singe him in their private Facebook groups but never, ever to his face, or to their own because most people don’t like the truth especially if it’s not served next to a warm glass of milk

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