Curtain Call

Wait outside.
There is a line.
Broadway hit,
A pantomime.

Back in time
Our favorite booth
Dancing wine
A happy youth

Now we're getting long in tooth.
Foretold us by the sayer sooth.​
These rose colored memories,
Dear departed reveries.

Don’t you love me?
Take me back
Is this for real
Or an attack?

I’m sweating, burning.
Can’t you see?
Scene one. Take two
What comes of me?

I love you more
Than the script can tell.
Back whence you came
To break the spell.

Laura, Laura,
Darling wife,
There’s coatcheck
In the afterlife.

Recite your lines
And I’ll resign
To acting out
The end of mine.

11/22/24
Zone S2E9