My Uncle said

My uncle said

that when I grow older

I will be known as a man.

But I know that

this is not true.

I will actually be known

as a statistical point

in an opinion poll

a number on a 

National Insurance card

a figure in the phone directory

and a fringe majority 

in the general election.

Whether I have 

learnt to count

or not.

Photo by Widdowquinn on Flickr

My Uncle said by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.