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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Princess Diana, One Year Later 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Princess Diana,
One Year Later

August 31, 1998

I wonder what it’s like
to lead a near-perfect life
to have servants clean up after you
or to prepare all of your meals. What if
you hated everyone, including
yourself, and you couldn’t eat
food without throwing up or

gaining weight. What
would it be like if you
couldn’t leave your building
because you might be
photographed by some
unknown stranger.

What must it be like to have
anything you want

sometimes, and sometimes
you can’t have anything
you could even
remotely want

I wonder if that’s
what it’s like to be
royalty

That’s what
it has to be like
to feel important
all the time
I wouldn’t know
I wonder if any member
of royalty, on any given
morning, on any given day,

I wonder if someone
like that would ever feel
anything other than the
usual pain that they feel
would
you hear from everyone
that you were perfect,
but would you still
keep telling yourself

that you were nothing

with a
question like that, with
an issue like that, wouldn’t
anyone wonder what
would win the daily battle


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