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they don't exist. And Ethel Merman is
the shade of a shade -- what Plato says
all poetry is --
a record spinning beneath
a needle
as the boys lip-sync into
imaginary mikes her glottal swagger,
brassy, large,
streetwise and from their mouths
so touchingly naive for being so . . .
There's no
people
like show
people . . . Their parents clap
and whistle
from the bed, propped up
on pillows . . .
Everything about it is appealing . . .
They are shouting Encore! Bravo!
when the boys,
like chorus girls, arms on each other's shoulders,
step-kick their way across the room
and out of it,
then back . . . stealing that extra bow . . .
Shades of a shade. What poetry is.
Because there's nowhere else for them to be
except
inside the room in which it isn't
when it is,
in which there is no room
unless I think of it -- the boys
their arms flung wide
on one knee mouthing the last words
before the needle slides off into silence,
the parents propped up
on pillows, half laughing, half
shouting Bravo!
Encore!
All now just the shade
of a shade --
like no
people
I know . . .
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