Hey Joe Shakespeare

A Poem by Duncan Brown

Why you got those boots on your feet

Are you the wandering jingle jangler

That heeled high feeling easy dreamer

Lending ears to become the audience

Marking antonyms like Julius Caesar

Trying to rise before the failures fall

Sublimely for the mad beauty of it all

In desperate dreams of the final curtain

Draping the fading drama in the folds

The weatherman never read the script

And left his quill on the top of the hill

When Romeo betrayed Juliet to the fool

Stealing his chance of everlasting fame

Casting shadows before his own naming

Everything in the lies of playing games.

At least that’s why he sold himself again

For sex and drudgery’s rotting role play

Once for the money and twice to show

That charity begins when gambling ends

Throwing dice at the shaming of the true

Believers in the obviously innocent song

That sang itself to deaths other oblivion

Dwelling inside the flickering footlights

Burning soles who tread the dollar less way

To stage their very own beautiful demise

Before a paying and praying audience

There’s no business like the dying business

That’s the dumb an’ smart career move

As death consumes all; here and ever after

The three ring circus hits the super highway

To heavenly pay days in the after math

That stole the souls of the leading actors

Wasn’t that just the smart career move

To die happily on the wings of disaster

Farewell sweet prince an’ princesses

May flights of angels love your music.

© 2017 Duncan Brown

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emmajoy

Herein a play within the play: ' Throwing dice at the shaming of the true ~ Believers in the obviously innocent song ~ That sang itself to deaths other oblivion ~ Dwelling inside the flickering footlights ~ Burning soles who tread the dollar less way ~ To stage their very own beautiful demise ~ Before ... '

A great and often humorous juxtaposition of Bill the Bard and modern language! Seems you juggle well, mixing the improbable with the possible.. clever that, truly clever.