Sick of Being Me
Jean Lehrman
Sick
of being
me,
want
to
be
you.
I
want
your
life,
I am
planning
to
be you, tomorrow
I wake
up you,
you,
me
the police will not believe
I have
stolen
your life,
I
will have escaped,
and from then on
i will take anybody’s
life
i want to, i will roam free,
when i tire
of
one life I’ll take another
I’ll be
notorious
no
one can do anything about it,
I
have become
a
fact of life
you have to accept,
I
have stolen your life
and you now have mine.
I
will live everybody’s life
no
one will be safe from me,
as
I inhabit the earth
and all its denizens, soon
I will
take over the lives
of
snakes and birds and water,
my
sanity
will be called into question,
there will be hearings
to
impeach me,
but no one
can find me.
I
move too fast
one to another, first
I'm you, then
the sky, then
I'm in the pump
at
the gas station,
and running your car, and your
brakes won’t work
unless I say so, I
am
in charge
of
the world,
no
one can stop me
you are all in trouble,
you better pray to me,
I am
pretty moody.
I do
what i want,
and I go where i want,
and no one can stop me.
i don’t have to live
my
life anymore
and i like it that way,
and I'm stealing your life,
and I'm running away with it,
tucked under my arm like a
loaf of bread,
stolen from a baker,
by
a
starving
man
and I'm eating your life
with jam and butter on it
it’s my delicious breakfast.
(previously published in If
You Come Back I Won't Have Aids, (Dead Proofreaders Society, 2004).
Jean Lehrman’s first book, If You Come Back, I Won't Have AIDS (Dead Proofreaders Society,
2004) draws on her personal experiences with AIDS, addiction and violence. A
popular poet and performer in
.