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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 Canon Power Shot camera).

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 Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.