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10-There’s Lear

There's Lear

The long Darwinian drama

plays out scene by the seen

with no particular audience ever:

100 billion background actor

redundancy (and counting).

Any encore eternal return

performance stand-in understudies at best,

improved morality an “aside”

to fit in a King Kong cameo.

The one-night-only improv

tragicomedy debuts

with little parental guidance

and zero wisdom: Take my life… please.

A kid at first must distinguish

from a goat before any routine

forgives for the practice cheat

who mines ability and tuned skills,

a winning musical score for dance.

A solar spotlight bit-part cast

rehearses to substitute sapiens effort

for evolved DNA character.

Rich Murphy

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