AucklandPoetry.com presents Poet Resident JAN OSKAR HANSEN on http://OSKAR.AUCKLANDPOETRY.COM

Friday, February 20, 2009

to be or not....

To Be or…

 

 

The swan on the lake doesn’t know it is a swan,

they say. How do they know? A swan may look

at us and say to another swan “Darling humans

don’t who they are.”  Quite right my lovely, they

are daft that way” (swans have lot in common

with actors, the lake is their stage and we are

their adoring audience) I know that because Tom,

the only actor I have met in the flesh, called me

darling, well, not only me but everyone he spoke

to. Tom died no one calls me darling anymore.

We only think we know ourselves, if we really did

it would be too scary to know that inside us lurks

a monster.         

 

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