BLACK BUTTERFLY

 POETRY, PROSE AND PAINTINGS

  Rehearsal

                  Saying all the lines,

                  the dumb answers

                  to smart questions never asked

                  in situations never met.

                  Remembering what to say if...

                  If never happens,

                  others' agendas

                  take precedence.

                  Making the moves

                  me here, you there

                  not well directed

                  or performed.

                  Fuck you!

                  You did not know the play

                  had not learned your part.

                  What use my knowing mine.