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Taken 2 September 2012 along Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA, with a Motorola phone.
Taken 2 September 2012 along Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA, with a Motorola phone.

If I am just an actor
And all the world’s a stage
Should I be content to know
The lines upon the page?

And if I’m just an animal
Held within a cage
Would I be shot down if I
Someday break out in rage?

Would the world just stop and stare
If I weren’t like the rest?
If I decide someday that I refuse
To take the test?

And if each man’s an island
Dependent on himself
Would he object if he could not
Go on to greater wealth?

So it seems philosophy
Is not the thing for me.
But I’ll go on and be myself
For no one else I’ll be.

Published by G. M. Lupo

​G. M. Lupo (ISNI: 0000 0005 0315 9196) is a native of Atlanta, Georgia where he has always had a dysfunctional relationship with his hometown. His most recent published work is the story collection Reconstruction (2020), part of his series of Atlanta Stories, which includes Fables of the New South (2017). Along with his novel, Rebecca, Too (2018), and his full-length play Another Mother, these constitute his Expanded Universe of Fictional Atlanta. He has also released a collection of essays, poetry, and stories entitled Words Words Words (2020). He was the winner of the 2017 Essential Theatre Play Writing Award for Another Mother which had its world premiere in his home neighborhood of West End in August 2017, in the building that once housed the library where he learned to read as a child.

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