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alternative  lives

Early sunlight casts my shadow

against the white house –

a parallel life, a Doppelganger

an alter-ego. What if the cartoons

were true and shadows

had an independent existence?

Would we stay in school,

smoke dope and hop a freighter,

become a CEO living on Park Avenue ,

care for the poor in India ?

Or, would we do what

we have always done—

be who we are,

living in our own shadow.