Tuesday, July 5, 2016

COMPANY

I guess I joke,
and you
slightly

laugh, unconvincingly but
tilted just right
in the

fourth of
July dusk,
and it's like

all the world's a stage
still—only 
suddenly, 

there's so many competing
independent 
theater troupes,

each fervently 
rehearsing the same
show in the same

space all at once,
with an
extremely

select cast,
but with 
billions

and frisky
and shimmering
billions of understudies.