Real?

Do you see the act alone?
Or do you see the act separate
from the artist?
What is the act?
Which is the artist?
Even from an artist's standpoint,
do we know the difference?
Where does one performance end,
and another begin?
Are we always on display?
How do we know whether
what we feel is real?
Whether what we perceive
is real?
What does real mean?
Why does it matter?
What do we have to anchor to,
other than the current perception?
How do we differentiate
between real and not real
when it all feels real?
Or is real always
changing?
Of course,

real is always
changing.
Real is

an illusion, 
as are

we all.