Clubbable

Every condition has a club.
Most you don’t know til you’re in them.
Bumming around the world’s a club

You join in remote locations.
Unlikely cancers form a club
And unlikely lives lived with them.

The Ivy League dropout who lands
In some remote, provincial town
May be startled to discover

Three more Ivy League dropouts there
Who, of course, all know each other.
It’s not always comfortable.

As someone with two doctorates
You could end up with a colleague
With two who embarrasses you.

As someone with a freak disease
You could find others with the same
Who are convinced God can explain.

But you’re in there. You’re in the club,
However rare, and there’s always
More in there with you than you knew.