I shift my answers
To the center,
One must have magic
If one is to take heart.
I split the avenue like a bell
Footsteps echoing,
Belligerent as a stain
Always announcing
My whereabouts,
My mutability, as I skulk
From place to place
Desperate to remain unused.
–
In my dreams there is only me
Though I wear many costumes
I appear most often as a house.
What intrigues me most
Is that we pay for our mediocrity
However, profound our gifts.
(the secret to genius is sweat)
–
We want to possess,
To change without struggle,
To validate without work.
Scarred and encumbered
I have wept and waited
I have withered and illumined.
But the most profound role
I have ever portrayed was man.
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