from Series Magritte

The Secret Life I

 
By day he was the stereo-
typically mild-mannered
man, un petit bourgeois from
curve of bowler hat to the
wingtips down below. Too
immersed in Max Weber to
consider Nietzsche as a role
model, but still had dreams

to find a life in the theater.
Finally achieved; but too
shaped by bureaucracy to
even be a lowly spear carrier.
Instead is typecast, stage dec-
oration, a