RED CRESTED POET
Forty years after the last poem
burned on the altar of atonement
for the sin of having written
like a girl, she stands before
a crowd of welcoming readers
writers like-minded poets.
Rusty voiced she tells of
doorkeepers with feet
seven armlengths long
who keep paparazzi at bay.
Dead quiet room.
Next she reads a tale
called Unrequited Love
that sears the air with
violence and Amazonian
resistance. Applause.
Bolstered, the red-crested
poet carries on with fare
suited to the palate of
this blood-thirsty claque
feeding them with fugues
obsessions, and thwarted
suicide.
The poet and audience
are sated.
We finish with the one
with violets in her lap.
37 Days of Shakespeare, Day 15: All’s Well That Ends Well
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*37 Days of Shakespeare, Day 15: All’s Well That Ends Well, first broadcast
January 4th, 1981*
- *Possibly written:* 1602, possibly his 25th play
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