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Broadway Buffoons


You and your partner are going to see yet another off-Broadway show You will laugh out loud but only you two are really in on the joke You look at The Playbill, wondering what buffonery you will see next It will be just another horrible production, just like all of the rest You both are creative people but use your creative talents in different industries But you have a love for the arts and wonder why this play is what people want to see? So to cope with some lost dreams, you see a play to laugh at what is front of you And to see the next horrendous performance of the Broadway Buffoons You both love good art but you know it is quite as good as it was in your youth It’s now a younger person’s stage as your entertainment idols are getting long in the tooth So you go to a show to see what buffoonery these young artists will come up with next You realize that you are seeing the same show that is no different than all the rest You both are creative people but use your creative talents in different industries But you both have a love for the arts and a few creative lost dreams So to make up for that disappointment, you go to a show to laugh at what is in front of you And to see the next horrendous performance of the Broadway Buffoons One of the actors did something weird on stage and you both laugh, while trying to hold it in You are Dying On The Inside, wondering why the producers hired this actor to begin with But everyone else is engaged with the show, so you two struggle to keep your composure So then you laugh at the buffoonery you saw on stage at a restaurant when the show is over You both are creative people but you use those creative talents in different lines of work While mediocre performers take the stage and your beloved theatre takes a turn for the worst So to make your universe right again, you see a show to laugh at what is in front of you And to witness yet another production from the Broadway Buffoons From Too Much Unwanted NoiseCopyright 2019 Resisting Distress Publishing                                      
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Paul Ryerson

I am a writer who writes poetry & plays. I have also written a short film & I created an animated series on You Tube. Included on Power Poetry are seventy poems from my five poetry collections, Rhymes With A Reason, Too Much Unwanted Noise, Broken and Burned Bridges, Dying On The Inside and Fool’s Gold and Fool’s Paradise

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PersonalThemeAbstract

Personal experience attending bad Broadway shows with specific partner

SparseMeasureDense

Dense repetition of ideas about mediocre theatre, creative disappointment

DarkSentimentBright

Negative tone: disappointment, frustration, disillusionment with modern theatre

StillEnergyExplosive

Moderate intensity; comedic frustration but contemplative overall structure

MicroLengthEpic

Approximately 31-50 lines of continuous free verse narrative

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Some phrases like 'getting long in the tooth,' 'Dying On The Inside' but mostly plain

LyricVoiceDramatic

First-person lyric voice reflecting on shared internal experience with partner

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