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ZIT
by
E. Peng
What’s in a
name?
Would it be any different if a Zit were instead
called a Bit or a Yit or a Xit?
Does it mean anything to assign the Zit the last
letter of the alphabet?
Perhaps it’s punishing the word Zit.
Z
The last letter of the alphabet receives as good of
treatment as the last person.
Nobody cares about the last person.
Nobody wants to be the last person.
The last person gets the scraps, the leftovers.
The last person misses the opportunity to get an
autograph from the famous celebrity.
Even the last person doesn’t want to be the last
person.
So the Zit is like the last person.
Nobody wants it.
Nobody likes it.
Everyone wants it to disappear.
Nobody can really kill it.
No one can explain it.
We just think it’s a mysterious fear.
It’s funny that the Zit is red.
What if it were bright orange?
Or neon?
How about rainbow-colored?
Wouldn’t that be something?
The Zit would alternate
Red
Green
Why don’t they sparkle?
Orange
Yellow
Like body glitter?
They look so ugly that the media can’t glamorize
Blue
Violet
The media can glamorize the bra and the underwear
But they can only try to kill the Zit.
IT
The Zit is the “It” guy
No one wants to be “It”
Ever play hide-and-seek?
Being the “It” guy is degrading.
All say
Not it,
Not it,
But the one who was too slow on the words
He becomes the “IT” guy.
You think that words are randomly assigned a name?
No.
Not at all.
Things would be drastically different
If Zit were instead a “Tum.”
Tums would be round
Cute
And Green
And everyone would like it.
Not like the Zit.
ZIT
What’s in a name?
What’s in a color?
Everything.
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