Recognition

[brynmawr1]

I realized today
sad to say
my best friends
are characters in fiction:
Frodo Baggins on his pony, 
the Steppenwolf looking in his mirror,
Leopold Bloom in his bath,
and Seymour Glass
with a gun to his head
about to transcend
to his next appearance.

And I must not forget,
Alfred E. Neumann
and with him I repeat
“What, me worry?”

You could do worse.  Besides, aren't we all a bit fictional trying to rewrite ourselves each day just a little?