self-entitled

[Leanne]

I am a liar
a dry lizard on chlorophyll
lost in a crowd of vegetables
swaying in sync

tone tuned to
laudatory laughter
for an eponymous tome
of pure fiction

This sounds to me like a slightly jaded performer so used to his on-stage persona that he can step outside of it and look in from a different perspective -- cynically summing himself up as a fraud who appeals to the idiot masses only because they don't know who he actually is. Of course, that's just one possibility

PS I think laudatory is fine to use there.