Archive for March 22nd, 2010
The Downside to Overachievement
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
At another time in another life
I was handsome, virile,
strong as an ox
and worked like a slave
because I was a slave -
handsome, virile and strong.
Because I outworked my fellow
slaves, and possibly because
I had all my teeth
and preferred the ladies
to the laddies,
I was chosen as The Chosen One -
the fellow bestowed with the honor
of capping the Pyramid at Cheops
with its uppermost stone.
This really killed me, it really did.
Two lessons: (1) avoid pyramid schemes
and (2) never be a slave to anything.
(Published in the Fall/Winter 2007 issue of The Homestead Review)
Note: Is this a message poem? Read the last two lines again for the answer. Just a fun poem, again linking me to that mysterious subject, reincarnation. Do I believe in reincarnation? I don’t, but all my previous selves do.
