drama

[cogs]

twofaced profiles in
funeral silence,
hypnotized behind gray
screen focused eyes,
candy crackle or cough
can't distract idle lives;
introducing a character
who shirks, slacks, and cheats
his kids, job, and wife,
the fans in his life...
now here, children jeer
ladies scream
men inflame;
this expensive seat
will not let me sink!
my gaffes, there spotlighted
in size exponential,
i'm stuck to the floor...
foreseeing forced exit...
no stage left to curtain
hypocrisy

[PrinceMyshkin]

This came across to me as a brilliant silhouette but I couldn't see what was beyond the screen, couldn't guess at the prose of the situation.

[cogs]

the theater audience sees, and reacts to, one of their lives on screen.

[blazeofglory]

I think this is reflection of what goes on and on dramatically in life as the reader is an onlooker of his own stage!!!

[cogs]

yes, blaze, i enjoyed thinking about the internal struggle we face as our own critics, and our shame reaction. i also enjoyed making theater allusions. thank everyone for reading and commenting!

[MorpheusSandman]

I was vividly reminded of Fellini's 8 1/2; a film about a film-maker struggling to make a film and inevitably ends up acting out a film about his own life where he becomes the subject that everyone judges and he's forced to face his own hang-ups about his life. It's a brilliant film (one of cinema's greatest masterpieces) if you haven't seen it.

[Bar22do]

And I was reminded of my own inner struggles, dilemmas, contradictions while writing and taking the risk (willingly) to be "on stage" at the mercy of exacting audience of which I myself am a part - you included it all in your sharp short lines; powerful. Thank you.