The Diary of a Nobody

from Births, Deaths and Marriages by Heist

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I was lying in a bed of delphiniums blue,
and geraniums red.
It was like the dormouse said...

How shall I begin this tale of no consequence?
It takes place within municipal offices
where I catalog your births, deaths and marriages,
vaunted times

Chrysanthemums white, or a rose for a button-hole
funeral wreaths or confetti that falls on the
cold marble steps you ascend and descend
in an endless line

And at night, walking home, I look in
at the light of human company, bright
without knowing the taste of it

Like a fly, seeking sunlight who’s drawn to the glass,
but who cannot get past to feel the embrace of it

'Dear Diary,' I write...

So I write these words, the words of a nobody
there are many like me, composing our litanies
largely ignored, we navigate corridors weightlessly

it's the urge to record while we still have memory
to show that we've lived
to show that we'd meant to be more than we were
more than we amounted to, finally

In my books, I arrange A to Z
the lives of others long dead
are painted into posterity

and they live again

these unremarkable men,
who picked up a pen
to fend off eternity

And so, 'Dear Diary,' I write...

Other people's lives, are a strange carousel
I can hear the organ grind.

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