I always wanted to be Audrey Hepburn

Today's Journal of Note:

failbetter.com


Poet and Poem of the Issue:

"Charade" by Melissa Hotchkiss


I cheated a little. I came across Melissa Hotchkiss at failbetter.com a few weeks ago, but I remembered her this morning. This is one of those poems that sticks with you because it's simply capital-T True. As she asks, "Doesn't everybody want to be somebody?"

Yes.

Sometimes, I would even venture to tag on the word "else" to the end of that question.

I think I may have to move to NY one day. Elsewhere is the word, in my case.