Protean

It Ain't Me Babe

By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 26, 2016

Protean

Milestones
Rocks in the road
Some boulders
Monumental obstacles
Blockers
Game changers
Others just
Pebbles in the stream
River running over them
Cooling our heels
Back packing Christopher
Taking us to other side
Heavy burdens
Ever more protean
Being what one is not
Ever morphing self
Face in the mirror
Looking deep
Through layers
Every day new
Not like before
That which was
Fading away
Thoughts, jobs
Relationships
Shaded friends
Fuck buddies
Thick portfolios
Flat files
Documents in cabinets
Books accumulating
Compilations
What we make and show
Exposed to others
How they view us
Easy definitions
Not my game
The deeper me
Never known
Even to self
Beyond Maugham's
The Summing Up
Rousseau's Confessions
More like
Through the Looking Glass
Or Steppenwolf
Always liked Catullus
Irony of Juvenal
Hilarious Suetonius
Camus' Caligula
Head of the class
Earning no degree
An ABD
For just showing up