Doppelganger Poem by M.C. Bruce

This is not my life
But some sad parody
Of what I would have become
Had I been more cowardly

In my youth, had I
Not taken the dare to write
My name large on the blank page
Of my country men's minds.

No, this is some scene
From one of those switching places movies
Where the hero is transmogrified
Into a lizard while a lizard

Takes human form and astounds everyone
By eating flies. This is not me,
My friends. I know I am thinner,
More handsome, somehow useful.