Report From The Black Box Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCADEEFAGHIJGAKLMNO PQRBSBATUEBVRWXVYFor Flaco | A |
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A cooler | B |
head of lettuce prevailed but when the actor | B |
asked his question and paused | C |
for us to watch him pause and think | A |
inside the pause I almost answered | D |
as if we were in a bar just the two of us | E |
and a balcony and spotlight The two of us | E |
and programs and makeup and a sofa | F |
from the director s living room and the black | A |
womb agora s ance of theater inviting us to feel | G |
together alone I recall I don t recall | H |
the question but its scope on his face | I |
was immense as if he were the Milky Way | J |
asking am I pretty am I here for sure for real | G |
for long and my breath was the quiet yessing | A |
of tall grass against the shoulders of a cat | K |
stalking the night I actually opened my mouth | L |
before I actually thought you will be stoned | M |
and not in the good way not with stones | N |
of tongues stones of fingers against my forehead | O |
but the play was messy and tangible and full | P |
of the etceteras I am full of and why | Q |
wouldn t I want to talk with that is a question | R |
the poem is asking you to answer wherever | B |
you are without me is the problem | S |
theater solves since we sit together | B |
in the dark with the dark because the dark | A |
deserves a face a soliloquy a lover a bow | T |
at the end When I always wonder if the players | U |
regret that the lights come up and they see us | E |
as we are seeing them as they were | B |
what a weird mirror that is showing one side | V |
sudden appreciation and the resumption | R |
of loose ends the other the vast | W |
and devotional possibilities of being kidnapped | X |
by a dream and which side is which side | V |
are you on | Y |
Bob Hicok
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