[Critique Group 1] Mary-Jo poem for the First session

[Mary-Jo Lord]

You Are the Center of Your Self Centered Universe

 

A legend in your own mind you
make mountains of knowledge from
mole hills of experience.

 

You think you are the information super highway or
grand central station of knowledge.
All facts and gossip start and end or are filtered through you.

 

With all of your focus on being or having

the best the worst, the biggest the smallest
the first the last
the newest the oldest you
don't appreciate what you have.

 

like a child who is sure that someone is going to take the last cookie, 
you snatch it up before there is a chance of its being offered.

You expect invitations before there is an event.

 

Your arrivals and departures demand full attention of all who are present.

No crowd is big enough to absorb your self-absorption.

 

"You're so vain.
You probly think this poem is about you.
Don't you."

 

Words adapted from "You're So Vain" CCarly Simon

1972

 

 

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