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Monday, February 22, 2010

Audience as a life style

Experience gives us the hands

for applause to render appropriately.

Emotions are always awaiting

permission to appear

in the story presented.

Attention has us say our lines

as if the script

tells us our truth.

The stage is some distance away

from every one,

some of the time

but we are seated

as near as we need to be.

Exterior reality is as a wardrobe

as we anticipate walk on roles.

Audience as a life style

becomes its own extended stage

of self as seduction.

We imagine an intimacy

that is hard to fulfill.

Symbolic actions come easier

and log in adequately

to account

for more than they are.

We are disenfranchised

as if origin is only a recital.

We make the best

as we can

from an internal keyboard

missing essential letters

to state our beings.

Audience as a life style

is the substitute,

much like longingly staring,

though unknowingly,

at the murky surface

of an otherwise hearty

alphabet soup . . .

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