The wasted actor
Please don't push me any more,
I am enough divided and destroyed,
dispersed and lost in far too many parts,
each claiming more than I can give;
for acting on the stage is nothing less
than spotlight prostitution
claiming all you ever had
and more than that,
bereaving you of all your privacy
and everything that was yourself;
for acting means, you have to be just anyone
except yourself, the only person lost to you,
the only character that you must never act,
while all the others must demand
your flesh och bone and heart and soul
until you are an emptiness of nothing left,
and all those characters and parts you acted
are reduced to phantoms of pathetic memories.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-01-24 at 10:18
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