Periaktoi Writing Post

I’ve seen all his movies,

some of them twice,

I’ve stalked him all over town

some of them twice

I’ve photographed his wives

some of them twice

I can get him to talk to me

some of them twice

 

I doubt you’ll remember me

Jeevan works as a paparazzo

wanted to be done with it

filled with mystery

and impossibly distant

it’s lonely

makes as a passable living

but sick to death

of stalking celebrities

their footsteps echoing

behind sidewalk planters

and in parked cars

 

I want to do something that matters

 

He’d spent an enormous

amount of time

doing something that matters

I want to be the one

to step forward

 

It means I do

what I say I’m going to do

 

He had told no one

Arthur and Elizabeth split

absolutely no one

for a full twenty-four hours

he’d been quiet

after the interview

something that matters