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Jaggededgebookpublishing
Category:
Poetry
Publisher: Jaggededgebookpublishing
ISBN-10: 1983333980
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 146
Copyright: july 2, 2018
ISBN-13: 9781983333989
Price: $3.99 (eBook)
Collaboration of sublime art with poetical works
A collection of interesting, provoking, and 'free-flow' poetry enhanced by fabulous paintings / illustrations by Elisabeth Johnson and Francis Charlton Esq.
Excerpt
Foreword
A street car called Desire
The penniless entertainer entered middle stage to echoing, rapturous applause from the three paying spectators, his mum, his granny, and his flea-bitten, mangy dog, who dared to enter the empty theatre and, even pay for the premiere of this unknown celebrity.
Shaking, and crapping in his pants, the unknown actor begun his one-man show, attempting to convince his spectators of the hidden genius bottled up in his warped, black humoured mind. He had been waiting for this moment to arrive for all of his life.
The "crowd" applauded (and barked) at every quip, joke, outrageous statement, spastic gesture, moonwalks, and facial disfigurements, "a hell of a show" they thought, in deep sympathy.
The empty seats did not deter the actor completing his 45-minute, one-man show. The lights dimmed as an echoing, enthusiastic crescendo of applause, barking, and tail wagging, circulated, and bounced off the velvet-clad walls resembling a free-flowing boomerang. It smacked the lonesome actor between his balls whilst taking a final bow, “ouch,” he cried!
The ‘crowd‘ withdrew, lights faded, a mask covering the actor gradually disappeared and, loneliness reappeared as the actor exited his
desolate, damp, mould ridden, changing room only to be greeted in the empty foyer, by an alcoholic, fag smoking, unshaven, unscrupulous theatre owner, and his three devoted fans. Hugs, and wet doggy kisses were issued, as a single tear drifted slowly down the make-up less cheek of a new born star, so proud, to have trodden the boards and, succeeded in the eyes of his devoted fans; Mum, Grandma, and his mangy, ageing dog called,
A Streetcar named Desire.
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