It is Not Me

It is not me who is writing

But someone else.

Please, every literature professor,

Teach the students that narrator does not equal author

That the author may speak through the narrator

But that the narrator does not necessarily live out the person whom the author lives out

In real life

Of course, the distinction between

Life and Art

Is neither sacrosanct nor even definable

But it is true that

There is no one-to-one correspondence bridging life and art

Just like how

Good translators do not rely on word-to-word correspondences

And instead, live by transformations bordering on infidelity

Transformations, transfusions

Mimicry is mocking

It is not about making an exact copy

Life is art, and

I mock you, by dissembling myself in the infinite expanse

Of the one I'm not