Well-Adjusted- Don'T Be-Brain-Stuffing Poem by Lonnie Hicks

To be well adjusted
can be a terrible thing
for where am I to dream
what does not yet exist
if I am only focused
upon what currently is?

And where in this
is to come to be
Creativity?

It can be a terrible thing
to be adjusted
because the mind
becomes hard-wired
to only what we
have personally experienced-
when I am out to discover
what is different from me?

No small thing this:
sailors die on the open sea
because their hard-wired minds
think that they need to find land
for fresh-water
making them forget
that they can catch fish
and drink.

Adjusted means
thinking like all the others think
knowing they will punish those
who dare to utter something
different from the orthodoxy.

Takes a strong mind
and character
to really think
differently
from what the others
keep
saying you
should think.

Protect that brain:
don't let the others
fill it in
for you,

find your own stuffing
to put in there
after all
you have to
all your life
live with it.

So open up
the Brain-Door
spend at least
five hours
a day
day-dreaming
that is how the Brain
wards off
Brain-Stuffing.

This what Einstein did-
five hours a day
you can see
how good
he did.