Waking Up from Succession

 

The rich people show is over. 

Prepare for the next rich people show. 

Pay hundreds to watch their folly, 

enriching those who play them, 

enriching those who write them, 

enriching everyone involved in 

training our eyes on a story. 

It's like someone has died, but not. 

It'd be best to let the characters go, 

even when you want to take their story 

further—in thin air, or in discourse 

with others who can see the cobweb 

more clearly than they see the path 

it's hung across. Pick up a book. 

Your neurons will do other dances. 

Wake up the next day and just live 

rather than consume imagined lives 

or those construed through symbols 

on a page. Be mindful of the body 

you inhabit. There is no grief 

less noble than grief over nothing. 

Even Rome said so at the end—

                    they're nothing.