This was inspired partly by my love of websites that review bad movies. I don’t particularly want to watch the actual films, but I enjoy reading reviews of them. I was thinking of people like Rutger Hauer, who have long careers and are known, yet not considered famous. I wonder if they feel like failures compared to big name actors, or successes compared to the majority of actors who don’t get much work at all.
If My Life Was Filmed
If my life was filmed, it would
go straight to DVD
and someone who was famous once
would have the role of me
and if five stars meant ‘excellent’
you’d give it two or three
and most of those who rented it
would watch ironically.
Years later they would track me down
and do an interview.
They’d say “I heard you died,” and I’d
say “Yeah, I heard that too.”
“Is any of it fictional?”
“Perhaps a scene or two.
There weren’t as many ninjas, but
the rest is mostly true.”
Written by: James Hutchings, author of The New Death and Others.
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