Friday, July 22, 2022

The Trick Is to Let Attention Notice Its Theft After You’ve Already Left

It’s not that nobody cares
What you do—it’s just in most
Instances very few do.

Boo hoo. I wouldn’t wish fame
On anyone, one newly
Famous novelist opines.

As soon as somebody cares—
Anybody, really, but,
More alarmingly, a lot—

You become the cat burglar
Who’s finally got the loot,
The bulky, cumbersome loot,

And now you have to get through
The narrow garret windows
Of cat eyes surveilling you.

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