Monday, May 29, 2023

Waking Up from Succession

 



The three Roy siblings, Kendall, Siobhan, and Romulus

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.