Moulage

Poesy plus Polemics

Photo of Scene from Puccini’s “La Boheme”
From a production by the Houston Grand Opera

theatrical wounds
histrionic agonies
curdle sympathy
earn you scorn as pariah
best to suffer in silence

you see we bear real
affliction and injury
with no wont to stage
low inducements to pity
preferring our self-respect

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