from Series Magritte

The Secret Life I


 

By day he was the stereo-
typically mild-mannered 
man, un petit bourgeois from 
curve of bowler hat to the 
wingtips down below. Too
immersed in Max Weber to 
consider Nietzsche as a role
model, but still had dreams 

to find a life in the theater.
Finally achieved; but too
shaped by bureaucracy to 
even be a lowly spear carrier. 
Instead is typecast, stage dec-
oration, a mute piece of wood.