Ghosts of Old Hollywood Graves
The Yankee Ideal
Pin stripes and dollar signs
dynastic all american
gas guzzling dallas cowboys
fourth quarter desperation
Manic cannon hail mary drive
incomplete pass landing
short of the goal line
Oh this american ego
sith emperor of my minds dark side
trapped between the old Hollywood
sign and Helicon Spring
Chasing Cassiopeia's throne
Apollyon flying on Icarus's wings
My head is reeled with old hollywood dreams
hooked as a kid, I became a Walt Disney fiend!
Vanity mirror shape shifting being
grooming silver screen self esteem
Cary's suave charm
Marxist Anarchy!
Woody's quick intellect wit
reflections of Depp Brando and Dean
trying to stand apart
another extra blending in with the scene
Type cast into playing the role of
your typical impressionable teen
another Self cast tragedienne
carrying on inner monologue
self important scene stealing soliloquies
captured by the ego rolling film reel
Beautiful portraits below the surface
recognizable faces swathed with unseen bandages
indulging in temptational sensationalism
Superiority seduction judgment anger and self pity
too afraid of the audience to open the curtains
and be completely vulnerable
Trying to alter
minor mirror flaw reflections at the altar of self stardom
meticulously grooming away insecurities
strange humbling displays of vanity
Reciting scripted bed sheet rhetoric
performance perfected pillow talk dialogue
Acting out for love and attention
kneeling and groping
incessantly feeding the festering feeling
the crave the call
the cry the crawl
internal spotlight infestation!
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poem by Gregory Allen Uhan
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