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2. Making Space
(A wonderful teacher I once had at the Stella Adler Acting Conservatory by the name of Sir Andrew Wade once proposed this challenge to our class. “If you can find a Shakespearean speech, poem, soliloquy or scene without a point I will gladly take you to dinner.” He emailed me later with an invitation to dine and told me how he kept the piece with him while it literally traveled around the world)
If I kiss my premise goodbye then I
Speak the speech I slay you, like broken pens
Less mighty than swords swallowed, as I lie
Pointless by beds of nails filed, while tens
Of thousands extend their middle fingers
Singing suicides of sense, a penny
For your thoughts caught in heads of tail stingers.
Two bees or not two bees question when we
Buzz in on Jeopardy without a clue.
Was it Shakespeare with the quill in the script?
Or did we skip its purpose in these few
Lines now composed in lieu of being flipped
The Bard, guarding answers forevermore
For with no ground I stand a clever bore.
