{"id":1516,"date":"2014-05-06T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2014-05-06T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T22:05:32","slug":"poem-show-must-go-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/06\/poem-show-must-go-on\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: As the Show Must&#8230;Go On!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>As the Show Must&#8230;Go On!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1517\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/theatrical-masks-300x220.png\" alt=\"theatrical-masks\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/theatrical-masks-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/theatrical-masks.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Desperately seeking an audience<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>With kings, queens, and commoners<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Call in the troupes!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Who will perform her<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Aspiring thespians<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Willing to do Shakespeare<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Or any low brow play right<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As parts are parts<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Whether broad way<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Or way, way off<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A bawdy comedy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As familiar as drama<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And as Greek as tragedy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Of chorus<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Getting a leg up<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>On those with less rhythm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Two bit players<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ticketed by seasons<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Perhaps a woman of an uncertain age<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Seeking the roll of a lifetime<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The lines are long<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And few are chosen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Luckily<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Protagonists<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And amateurs all<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Make for stiff competition<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Breaking a leg<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To be cast<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Blinded by fancies<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Of bright lights<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And paid with applause<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In dark rooms<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Only wishing they were someone else<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Until curtains for all<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Calling them out<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Unmasked<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And wearing customs<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Both foreign and familiar<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Giving spy to private moments<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And public scenes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Usual suspects<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And unusual characters<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tugging hearts<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And funny bones tickled<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Inhabiting the dreams of others<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Constructing story after story<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>With strapping sets<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And suggestive facades<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Getting down to it<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>With a portending fear<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Of under study<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Practicing your lyin&#8217;s<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Until with sincerity<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Putting on<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A peril<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As gossamer as taut<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Utterly made up<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Like guise and dolls<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Hoping to hold up<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To bright lights on disquieting duds<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As once alive audience<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Recumbent in such getups<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Prone to rein checks<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Less than charitably<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>If over season<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Choice words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Employed too generously<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Making out like a bandit<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As if<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Amateurs turn pro feign<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Still putting on errs<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In a sense<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Beyond approach<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Unless crying<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Author! Author!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Then too<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Their credit<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Setting the stage<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>For public scrutiny<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And curtains<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>For private dramas<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To play right<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And becoming actors<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As some life long<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Vocation<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>With every few weeks run<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>From the on set<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Fashioning a dress<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Rehearsal<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Imagining you&#8217;ve arrived<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Opening night<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Wear all cheap talk<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Is exchanged for some notorious scrip<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Taking another&#8217;s word<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As one&#8217;s own is silenced<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Propping up delicate worlds<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That can be destroyed<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Like cellophane crumbling<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A hard candy to swallow<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Or cell profane<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Making a bard dandy too hollow<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To see stars circling and falling<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Uniformly emptying the stage<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>For the row to follow<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>B4 you sunk my battle<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ship ahoy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Can you hear me now?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ushering out<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The end of<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A cacophonous patron<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Of coarse, it could be<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A night mare to be ridden<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Into the next production<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A play within a play<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Full of mock puns<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yielding false starts<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And startling double-takes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As hearts race<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And our worst fears ketchup with us<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Dying on stage<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Putting our best end forward<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Too sad a claim<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Enough to bring the house down<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Or perhaps so fetching<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>From the edge of one&#8217;s seat<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To recover<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As unruly<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As the show must<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Go on<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In her dialogue<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Not with standing<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ovations<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Out laud<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A cross the country side<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Only just surviving by assuming another&#8217;s name<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A compelling ing\u00e9nue-ity<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Making up for every pre-tense<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As you take the stage<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>With your commanding presents<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Though petrified<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Masking it well<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>With a wink and a smile<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>You totally rock<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And given props<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Taking flight<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Not walking on water, but skipping<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A stones throw from the coast<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Safely in the pocket<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Like music in your years<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>One for the ages<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And all for won<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Giving berth<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To the generations<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Of awe uplifting<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And knaves razing<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ever suspending disbelief<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As a play<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Like a child<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Takes a village<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This poem is a gift and a tribute to my sweetheart and muse, Maryjo.\u00a0 She is an actress about to be in a Neil Simon play, <em>Proposals<\/em>, put on by the <a href=\"http:\/\/thevillageplayers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Village Players<\/a>, here in Toledo.\u00a0 Her son, Connor, is also acting in this play.\u00a0 Maryjo has fulfilled many of my dreams, not the least of which is dating a beautiful actress!<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/Poetry\/POEM-As-The-Show-Must-Go-On.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">download a printable PDF version of this poem here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This poem was accompanied by a prop: a pocket-sized, polished orthoceras fossil which looks like a theatrical mask winking!\u00a0 This serendipitous token helps explain the verses near the end of the poem:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Though petrified<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Masking it well<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>With a wink and a smile<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>You totally rock<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And given 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