Main Character Complex

I’m not superstitious,

just a little stitious.

Goodness, that should be on a shirt.

Probably is.

Listen,

this is weird.

I write something sad about

something I think I blew

and you come around saying otherwise

otherwise otherwise.

But lo and behold,

I write something happy,

confident, triumphant

and where do you go,

but off the face of

our little planet

rising in the sun

for a new day

without you.

You can call that

a main character complex,

call me Narcissus, it’s probably

true. But really

all I want to know

is whether

there is something here

waiting for me

to write something melancholic

in order to continue.

- samual curtis