What makes a geek?
We throw that word around so much,
But am I a geek?
I like what are considered geeky things,
But does that make me something other?
Does it provide an answer to who I am?
What is a geek anyhow?
Does geekdom require obsession?
Is it a need to have things “just so”?
If so, obsessive-compulsives would all be geeks,
But they’re not.
They’re obsessive-compulsives.
Is it specialized knowledge in unpopular areas?
Then all college professors would be geeks,
And comic book geeks and video game geeks
Would not be geeks,
For those things are definitely part of our pop-culture?
Is it otherness,
(A quality I certainly possess),
Like Japanese “otaku”,
Which literally means “outsider”?
Am I a geek?
Am I anything?
Are you?
