Should I Write My Memoir?

What is interesting about a life?
Who would want to write their memoir?
All just a lot of struggle and strife.

It’ll be a blessed relief
when it’s over—no one will want to read your memoir.
What will be interesting about your life

once you’ve bought it and you’re sitting in a warm place
that’s not really all that far
removed from where you’re sitting now, with your struggle and strife?

Well, someone went and hired a fife-
and drum corps to serenade Babar.
What was ever interesting about that elephant’s life?

Well, he was an animal of a different race,
but he still had his old tribe back in Africa.
Paris life was a lot of struggle and strife

for Babar the elephant, with his soft, friendly eyes,
wanting to take his suit off and retour à la nature,
avoiding the struggle and strife.
What is interesting about a life?