Don’t Be

don’t be perfect like a crisp little cookie;

cuz if one crumb cracks off,

leaving you 99% and no mercy,

Your Perfectness knows

there’s an infinite supply of numbers between 99 and 100

to shout

“your immaculate cookie’s a total failure–“

don’t be

so caught up in the number, child,

the crumb

on your plate

doesn’t own

your fate,

doesn’t know

there’s a dozen more baked

and broken on purpose

between your imperfect teeth.