Tuesday, 26 December 2017

Creating Scenery



When the action gets going this feeling equates 
to being short a page - tho probably I’m reading 
the wrong scene - or maybe th’ play I’d  thought 
I was in had already been staged; perhaps back 
on some other day when if was the rage - if that 
can explain an indecent familiarity - dealt like th’ 
last card in a deck where you know you’re not a 
winner - but then you’re not The Joker either 

So we act a role we’re seemingly cast in with an 
aplomb nurtured out of ageless characterisation 
for which we’ve already won awards; saying the 
words isn’t a trial - we’re contained in them as if 
it doesn’t need thinking about, even tho change 
is evident and the scenes are so different - or is 

It just me - creating scenery where there’s none 
© 31 July 2017, I. D. Carswell 

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