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Superpowers of the Avoidant Personality (For L.)

I can shrink to the size of a fruit fly.  
Almost invisible,  
and with a tiny voice to match.  
No one hears a word I say.  
No one gives a frick what happens to you when you’re this small.  
They’ll just as soon smash you as to look at you.  
They won’t think twice.  

Or I can become my shadow.  
Just a hazy silhouette.  
Again, almost invisible, but solid.  
Like tinted glass.  
People bump into me a lot when I’m my shadow self.  
“Oh," they say.  "I didn’t see you standing there."  
 
I can become completely hollow so that wind whistles through me.  
It’s like music, but eerie,  
like the moan of a ghost.  
People don’t like the sound of it.  
I'm light as ocean froth when I’m hollow.  
I have to hold onto something lest I blow away  
like a dust bunny in a wind storm.  
 
I can be completely invisible but it's worthless
because it only works when nobody's looking.  
I know I’m invisible because I know how it feels,  
but then somebody looks in my direction and there I am,  
plain as day.  
Hiding, as they say, in plain sight.  
So complete invisibility, at least in my case, is not that big a deal.
Author's Note
We all have our superpowers.
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