too many hugs?

i've never

understood blue hair,

or pink,

or green, or someone

covered in tattoos

and piercings.

fish hooks dangling

from lips,

or nose,

or ears.

straight pins

through the eye brow.

i don't get it, never did

and never will.

when growing up 

it was mostly convicts

and sailors

with tattoos.

thugs and motorcycle gangs,

hookers.

now it's everyone, from

the sixty year

old grocery clerk,

to the teacher,

and the nun.

what are they saying

to the world at large?

look at me?

i'm somebody, or is it

a cry for help

of some sort.

not enough hugs as a child,

or too many?

perplexing.