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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

To set up the play

To-day we have to set up the play. Yesterday

We read the manuscript. And to-morrow morning,

We shall act through it. But to-day;

To-day we have to set up the play. Nugi

Run like a God, elegant and fast on the beach at home.

And to-day we have to set up the play.


This is up-stage. And this

Is down-stage, this is where you will be placed in the beginning.

This is the house left, and the house right.

You remember to look from the audience.

His elegant posture and his strong handsome body envy other owners.

We remember to look from the audience.


This is the balcony, which will not be

On stage through the entire play

And please do not forget when to get it out.

You can do it easily with the manuscript and the wheels.

His happiness, his spirit is catching, you cannot help to grin.

Any of them writing it down.


And this you can see is the trapdoor. The purpose of this

Is to hide quickly when the light blends down. We can open it

Quickly and disappear: we call this a quick exit.

Open it quickly and disappear,

He is fast and cannot wait to get outside:

They call it a quick exit.


They call it a quick exit: It is perfectly easy when you make it a routine:

Like the stage directions, and the timing of the balcony,

And rembering your lines from the finished manuscript,

Which in our case we have not got; And

Playing in the garden before we open it an quickly disappear,

For to-day we have to set up the play.


3 comments:

  1. Nice interplay between the two voices (who is Nugi?), and a good pastiche of the form of Reed's poem. The war thematic seems to be missing, though?

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  2. Nugi is my Dog :)
    No it can be a war to set up a play! well in som way.

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  3. I see - a version of the war between work and play (in the other sense of the word...)

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