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Sarah Maymi
Grade 10
Cardinal Spellman High School
Mr. Quintana
Microscopic Starlit
You were neither the star
nor in the ensemble cast.
In fact,
your name appeared in twentieth billing,
bypassed by everybody.
Hardly an Elphaba
belting on stage.
Never could adapt the tragic beauty of a Fantine,
though you can dream.
Assumed you'd be an understudy
but you were simply a minor-
a nobody.
Blending on stage with the rest
and their pink polka-dotted stockings.
Everyone's lives so fulfilled and complete.
the spines of their biographies
were stretched in defeat
(with several dog-eared pages).
You were lucky enough to be a contender
in someone else's brief, easily forgotten chapter.
Regarding your life,
you gave up the title of director;
didn't even bother to be a projector.
The screenwriter determined your grisly fate
which involved,
on a wide multiplex screen,
you finally dying.
And no one in the audience cared.
