The Machine
We come from conveyor belt lives;
our feet never touch the ground.
It’s time to change production -
Who do you think we are?
This model’s fed up.
You think we’re numb?
I’ll break this mask,
I don’t need a script.
The stage is not a guillotine.
But who says we have to act?
Let’s make our own story;
One that can’t be rehearsed.
Let’s show them
under those stage lights
under that makeup
what the Life Play can really be.
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Scapecrow
I am seventeen years old. My favourite sport is hockey and I like meat and potatoes. I have a pet leopard gecko named Mr. Owen (named after a character in Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians"). I plan to be a theatre major at UW-Milwaukee next fall, and to minor in animation. I'm the only female tenor in the Milwaukee Irish Fest Choir. quote: "The world is rather bitter; that's why everyone wants sweet things." -The Undertaker, Kuroshitsuji
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