Defiance Is Just Your Kind of Deposit

Analyses of booms and busts
In baby names and dog breeds
Nicely confirm your preferences

For slight independence, and degrees
Of freedom correlate with wishes
To belong to particular teams.

Any too-truly individual soul
Is doomed. Even freedom from control
Is a search for a habitable

Comfort zone where you can feel
Supported by others like you
To whom you belong who belong to you.

The youthful rebels, soulful
Revolutionaries, independent
Old curmudgeons settle like silt,

Like the regular seasonal layer
Cakes at the bottoms of the deltas
Feeding vast seas and small lakes.