21 again, but perhaps a bit more sense.
MAGUFFIN
We each play many roles in life,
from sabateur to farmer's wife.
The lodger plays the Jamaica Inn game,
Rebecca plays the notorious skin game.
Young and innocent, rich and strange,
from murder to easy virtue, we change.
Each role is a lifeboat. We do what we can.
Even those born on the Isle of Man
can leave if they want to and not be a Manxman
(just sever the rope and declare, "Me? No thanks, man!")
Like strangers on a train, we're spellbound,
hardly aware that our carriage is hellbound
since by the rear window we're lounging, unknowing
it's north by northwest that we're actually going.
Time is a secret agent that banishes
the person we once were. The lady vanishes.
Last edited by Roger Slater; 04-28-2009 at 11:48 AM.
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