Zwischenmensch

'To be a Zwischenmensch is to feel at home everywhere and nowhere simultaneously.' Chaim Potok

I’m between persons just now.

I’m a Zwischenmensch.

To be honest, I’m not sure if I’m

between or betwixt; I’m just

swishing that way and this, which is

why I mention it. 

I’m a between-person, a

Zwischenmensch.  I don’t know if

I belong there or here, if I’m part of

that culture or this, hot or cool or

not so much of any school. Still, I

have to mention it. 

To be honest, I’m not sure if I’m

being between or between a being, or

even if I’ve been between;

Zwischenmensch gets you like that. 

It leaves you kind of

flat, as if that was your natural

state, which is why I mention it.

Not to be or to be: like

Hamlet I don’t really have a choice. 

Dazwischen und wischen, I’m wishing

I could be fishing in a place no one

knows; trailing, like the line, my

toes in the water, a fine occupation for

one of my kind, a Fischermensch between

fishes, swishing this way and that.

I have to mention it.