as told by my mother you can't find it a bottle or pour it on your hair breed it in the bed or from a dish it doesn't come on a hanger or the style of shoes you wear you don't drive it down a street you don't walk it to the store it's not between the pages of a book or the color of your home you don't drink it from a glass or eat it with your salad fork you can't steal it from your neighbor or borrow it from a friend it's not in a bank account or the hours that you keep as told by my mother it's not the color of your skin the length of your hair or the shape of your body class rich or poor tall or short laborer or professional child or parent you either have it or you don't |