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all my past lives have been failed attempts at fame

from looking glass badger; criminal ladle by Dangle Manatee

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I had plans to start a band of revolutionaries
and we were gonna kill the queen
but then someone said ‘Let’s chop of his head instead’
and I found myself beneath the guillotine.

So in the next life, I decided to try and write,
it was poetry that was pulsing through my veins
and I revealed in excess and, yes, I left a beautiful corpse,
but I never got around to write a page.

Next time around I considered being a an architect
to build spires which might pierce the sky,
but soon I found out it wasn’t so easy as it looked,
as the bricks all fell in on me one night.

All my past lives have been failed attempts at fame
but at least I can say that I lived them to the full.
Now I just want to be able to say the same
about this one but I’m not certain what I want to do.

So next I thought about being a prophet
to give the lost some direction in their lives
but when I looked out on the crowd that had come to hear me
I thought ‘Well, I’m just as lost as any of these guys’.

Next I conceded I could be a scholar,
run this state through with my pen,
but upon filling my bookshelves, they all collapsed on me,
and the headlines read that learning leads to death.

But then I knew, oh I knew, that I was born to be an artist
the paintbrush like an extension of my arm,
and I cut off my ears to try and fit in
but the other artists they just laughed.

All my past lives have been failed attempts at fame
but at least I can say that I lived them to the full.
Now I just want to be able to say the same
about this one but I’m not certain what I want to do.

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from looking glass badger; criminal ladle, released July 30, 2015

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