A superior pretender.

It’s silly. To lie to one’s self. I try not to lie. To be truthful. Put it this way. I sometimes pretend. Being someone I’m not. Knowing I’m pretending. And usually, I do it for laughs. Like when I’m with my Italian true love. I pretend being the late Italian movie star Marcello Mastroianni. Which is funny. Because I look more like Boris Yeltsin.  I pretend, too. That I’m a superior being. And that Lake Superior was named after me.   Occasionally I dupe myself.  Into believing that I am superior. A superior pretender, that is. --Jim Broede