A game
I play
about fame
I pick a name
Like, say
John Lennon
and pretend
for a moment
I lived his life
the glory the spectacle the genius (in no particular order) the path to his wife death
I ask myself would I trade my own to be Yoko? No.
I move on Paul or Linda? Warhol or Mapplethorp? Marilyn? Morrison? Jimi or Janis? JFK or Jackie O? Choose.
The weight of this game exhausts me as if I’ve run a marathon in which I cannot possibly win.
Can you?