#56 Four to Six

A jovial, friendly, earnest demeanor
Is it even a condition at all?
Having a great majority
was never going to be possible
Something obviously didn’t fit
the treatment was the same
Among them were the twenty-somethings
That is when the penny dropped
They were showing no enthusiasm
He had made it his mission
either looking at the ground
For what was plain for all to see
or glowering, holding out their phones
a child is struggling to read
with outstretched arms to watch videos
that are effectively meaningless
Seeing as many faces as possible in the crowd
we should be trying to help the children
They generally covered their faces with cloth masks
receiving hate mail fairly regularly
They walked, often hands in pockets
the word bully comes to mind
in clusters of perhaps four to six
No two definitions agreed
with at least one of them frequently looking back
they has absolutely no backing academically
These outliers looked like trouble