An Autumn Day

Names for bodies that never
Existed may have better
Chances to be remembered

Than names for ordinary
Individuals. Scary,
How the shelves of libraries

Preserve more gods and warriors,
More superheroes, monsters,
And honored mythic horrors

Than books on plain names who lived.
Half the few famous didn’t
Even actually exist.

So long as stories tell tales,
So long will fictions prevail.