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Of course the familiar rustling of programs	A
My hair mussed from behind by a grand gesture	B
Of mink A little craning about to see	C
If anyone I know is in the audience	D
And as the house fills up	E
A mild relief that no one there knows me	C
A certain amount of getting up and down	F
From my aisle seat to let the others in	G
Then my eyes wander briefly over the cast	H
Management stand ins make up men designers	I
Perfume and liquor ads and rise prayerlike	J
To the false heaven of rosetted lights	K
The stucco lyres and emblems of high art	L
That promise with crude Broadway honesty	C
Something less than perfection	M
Two bulbs are missing and Apollo s bored	N
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And then the cool drawn out anticipation	M
Not of the play itself but the false dusk	J
And equally false night when the houselights	K
Obey some planetary rheostat	N
And bring a stillness on It is that stillness	K
I wait for	O
Before it comes	K
Whether we like it or not we are a crowd	N
Foul breathed gum chewing fat with arrogance	K
Passion opinion and appetite for blood	N
But in that instant which the mind protracts	K
From dim to dark before the curtain rises	K
Each of us is miraculously alone	P
In calm invulnerable isolation	M
Neither a neighbor nor a fellow but	N
As at the beginning and end a single soul	Q
With all the sweet and sour of loneliness	K
I as a connoisseur of loneliness	K
Savor it richly and set it down	F
In an endless umber landscape a stubble field	N
Under a lilac electric storm flushed sky	J
Where in companionship with worthless stones	K
Mica flecked or at best some rusty quartz	K
I stood in childhood waiting for things to mend	N
A useful discipline perhaps One that might lead	N
To solitary self denying work	J
That issues in something harmless like a poem	R
Governed by laws that stand for other laws	K
Both of which aim through kindred disciplines	K
At the soul s knowledge and habiliment	N
In any case in a self granted freedom	R
The mind lone regent of itself prolongs	K
The dark and silence mirrors itself delights	K
In consciousness of consciousness alone	P
Sufficient nimble touched with a small grace	K
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Then as it must at last the curtain rises	K
The play begins Something by Shakespeare	S
Framed in the arched proscenium it seems	K
A dream neither better nor worse	K
Than whatever I shall dream after I rise	K
With hat and coat go home to bed and dream	T
If anything more limited more strict	N
No one will fly or turn into a moose	K
But acceptable like a dream because remote	N
And there is after all a pretty girl	U
Perhaps tonight she ll figure in the cast	N
I summon to my slumber and control	Q
In vast arenas limitless space and time	V
That yield and sway in soft Einsteinian tides	K
Who is she Sylvia Amelia Earhart	N
Some creature that appears and disappears	K
From life from reverie a fugitive of dreams	K
There on the stage with awkward grace the actors	K
Beautifully costumed in Renaissance brocade	N
Perform their duties even as I must mine	W
Though not as I am always free to smile	X
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Something is happening Some consternation	M
Are the knives out Is someone s life in danger	B
And can the magic cloak and book protect	N
One has of course real confidence in Shakespeare	S
And I relax in my plush seat convinced	N
That prompt as dawn and genuine as a toothache	Y
The dream will be accomplished provisionally true	Z
As anything else one cares to think about	N
The players are aghast Can it be the villain	M
The outrageous drunks plotting the coup d tat	N
Are slyer than we thought Or we more innocent	N
Can it be that poems lie As in a dream	T
Leaving a stunned and gap mouthed Ferdinand	N
Father and faery pageant she even she	Y
Miraculous Miranda steps from the stage	A2
Moves up the aisle to my seat where she stops	K
Smiles gently seriously and takes my hand	N
And leads me out of the theatre into a night	N
As luminous as noon more deeply real	B2
Simply because of her hand than any dream	T
Shakespeare or I or anyone ever dreamed	N

Anthony Evan Hecht

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