Your ‘traditional’ values
a façade,
community theatre set
flimsy, off-kilter
kitschy backdrop for
absurdist black comedy
faith as virtue
dignity as punchline
righteousness as truth
pomposity as dignity
oppression as plot twist
‘Jerry Mathers as The Beaver’
your black-and-white is showing
nuance cannot be played
by circus clowns
deifying pies-in-the-face as
western civilization’s
high water marks
you, yes you!
square-jawed leading men
could not lead ants to a picnic
but got the gig anyway
blowing your wads on the audition
with nothing in reserve
one dimensional players
in roles written with complexity
vastly more intelligent playwrights
who envisioned a successful run
of dramatic turns
never intending
for the show to go from
high art
to second-rate parody
now the audience is getting antsy
and it’s not even
intermission
– Mark L. Lucker
© 2017
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Ponderable polemics, poetic 