Character Development
extracted from the quarry
soapstones, alabasters, limestones &
marbles,
all products of someone else’s choices
culminating in our
accidental, uneventful, mistake of
birth---
the silky faces begin without blemish &
through the early youth begin to gain
the scars of early adolescence,
the teasing at school, the fistfights, the
pulling of hair, the catfights, the ridicule &
flat out insults which end up forming the
base of the cast---
if at home the insults continue, beating ensues,
psychological abuse, religious oppression &/or
just plain old ignorance of the child
takes place,
then the digging carving knife makes its way in---
by the time the carving has
developed into something recognizable
as a full fledged adult,
its character is so warped
that one cannot look it in its
whittled out eyes.
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