in my past lives

i would have been a gypsy
i would have been a pirate
i would have been in paris
a grand courtesan.
i would have been in england
groomed and graceful with a wild soul
i would have been a traveling minstrel,
i would have sold birds and ribbons and tin.
i would have been a teacher
i would have been a duchess
i would have been a hippie
i would have been a poor house wife with a house on the sea
i would have been