A Life of an “unfamous” Artist

Many have fancied
Themselves artists and
Have painted paintings
That will never be in a gallery
Not to mention hang on
A museum wall
Or be in a band that never
Gets out of the garage
Or past a high school keg party
To make a Sgt. Peppers
Novels are written that
Never are published
Getting dusty and lost
On a shelf
Eventually thrown into the
Ashbin of unrecorded
History.
Actors imagine
Brando or Dean
or
Academy Awards
But never do anything
But a bad
TV commercial
or cancelled sitcom
and on an on
but they may have
fun
dreaming
scheming
of future glory
whose story
never happens
and they
read novels
play records
watch films
to inspire them
go to
arty
parties
and sip wine
and hang
with bohemians
who chatter
about
tofu
political activism
trying to look
hip
while some succeed
most fail
but whose to say
that this is all for
nothing?
It’s the failures
That
Illuminates
The sparkle
Of the
Successes
And
Confesses
The truth that
To embark
On
This life
Most likely
Will be
Doomed
To total
Insignificance.
How’s that
For
Darkness
At the end of
The tunnel.