These other people
This other life
They trip to France or Italy
Or die or leave their wife
These other people
That other life
The one I might have lived
The one without the strife
Those other people
And their tidy lives
Their tidy houses
Their tidy wives
Those other people
And their messy lives
Their dead husbands
Their missing wives
I find...
The life of a famous actress
As far from my life
As those memoirs of drug runners
Or the stories from refugees
Fleeing unthinkable brutality.
My life...
Potters on from day to day
No big tragedies
No big triumphs...
Unless a word here
And a phone call there
Could count as either.