wannabe

‘Oh so you’re a wannabe
singer-songwriter?’

Not just that! 

                        I’m a wannabe

florist, a wannabe fireman, a wannabe

    painter, parachuter, paleontologist,

        a wannabe daffodill, a wannabe dolphin, 

    a wannabe volcano glittering with distance,
I’m a wannabe beetle, wannabe
    honeybee,     hummingbird,     hand-holder extrordinare,
           I’m a wannabe
    steam engine, a wannabe

zircon, a wannabe waveform

            jittering     through     space,
       a wannabe geothermic geyser
    oscillating in subterranea,
a quantum decision,         a many-worlded being
    a thought experiment,        

                                             a computer,

a song,            a dog,     a tear-filled eye, 

                an everlasting object

        of transience,

How sad it would be

if we never wanted to be

anything