Michael Lally

About Me

MY LIFE 2 (this won't accept tags or line breaks so "/" stands for a line break and "//" for a stanza break) When I was 10,/ I thought I was "Irish," / even though I was/ born in the USA.// When I was 20,/ I thought I was "Black," / even though my skin / is pink & freckled, / my hair is straight,/ and I have no/ African ancestry.// When I was 30,/ I thought I was "queer,"/ even though I was/ married and had/ two children, and/ all my fantasies/ & obsessions & com-/ pulsions & attractions/ were and had always/ been about women.// When I was 40,/ I thought I was a/ "movie star," even/ though the movies/ were terrible, and/ I was terrible in/ them, and almost/ no one knew them,/ or who I might/ have been in them.// When I was 50,/ I thought I was/ "enlightened," even/ though I wasn't.// But of course I was/ and am—enlightened,/ as I was and still am/ —an Irish-Black-/ Queer-Movie-Star.

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