Poetry - Day Two

Prompt: randomly pick a concrete noun from the dictionary. Look at its various definitions, and the words before and after it. Use it to write a poem.

Words: Heteroclite (noun): deviating from common form or rules; abnormal; somebody or something abnormal or unusual; a word that is irregular in inflexion or declension.

Heterodyne (adj): combining two similar radio frequencies to produce a lower frequency or beat.

I'd Rather Be

Rather than an oddball, I think that I might
have preferred to be called a heteroclite.

Whereas heterosexual's the standardised form,
a heteroclite deviates from the norm.

It holds on to 'hetero', upholds the illusion
that hetero is normal and there's the confusion.

Abnormal, unusual, with irregular inflexion,
I'm proud of my heterochromatic reflection.

Heteroclitic is a new word of mine,
and is used for a beat that is heterodyne.