The Tyranny of the Typical

The line between divine
And ordinary life
Has always been porous,

Since the ordinary—
The norm, the typical,
The modal—is the most

Expected and approved.
Why wouldn’t you expect
Divinity to shine

From central tendencies?
The outlier heroes
Have to be gathered in

To the center of things
To become heroic,
And what stays on the edge

Of sprawled charts are monsters.
Sun shines from the middle.
Typical rules the world.