How Hard it is to be a Drama Queen
How hard it is
to be a
drama queen
and give your all
so much to
fight
this mediocrity
the everyday
the must be done?
So focused
must you
have to be
upon this
heaving mass
of vast exaggeration
aghast refusal
the commitment
not to
go gentle
into the tepid
every day
Do you know
because you have
learned it
before?
enough to
even the edges
smooth the hair
out of place
lift your finger
to your lips
do not cry out
in alarm
do not wear
fake lashes
to bat furiously
in blank
astonishment
wring your hands
and ask:
what shall I do
and when?
But oh
the sheer drama
of it all.
how not to
come undone
be set loose
unravel?
How not to
exclaim
wave your hands
flap your arms
like flying
and fly even
perhaps
towards the sun
because
oh
just because
what fun.
Art: Modigliani