My Secret Life
If I had a secret life,
it wouldn't be secret very long
for I'm a talker, a reveler of words
filled with stories that long to be heard;
in the moving shadows of my days
the heroes and the villains both are slayed
and I am the bearer of bad and good news
dependent on your beliefs and views;
often, I may stand alone
outspoken speaker bent and prone
recalling the memories of all we've unlearned
and everything history continues to spurn.
I am a simplistic sage
spewing out the lessons of an age
where everything from the past
has returned only to be recast;
Hear my story as my life was played
all the world is an imaginary stage
and I an actor with nothing left to say
just another pretender in the word play.
Did you know?
My Secret Life' is perhaps the most infamous of all underground Victorian erotica. It is the sexual memoir of a well-to-do gentleman who began at an early age to keep a diary of his erotic behavior. He continues this record for over 40 years, creating in the process a unique social & psychological document.
For Caren Krutsinger's contest, "If I had a Secret Life"
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