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  A Murmur of People. A Murmur of People. Like the murmur of starlings sweeping across the sky, With no discernible reason nor why, They change direction with little more than sudden swing, So does the human mob sweep all before its fickle whim, Like a murmur of birds in full flight, The petulance of demand backed with political might, Be it completely foolish, demented or just profit scented, So does the human mob sweep all before it strikes, To break, smash, destroy every created thing, The vacuous cry of its right, a trumpet of raucous note, No melodic tune, just  blunt, abstract screeching rote, Spoken in a stuttering, stumbling, ill-conceived trope, One in all in murmur of blind faith sweeping across the sky, No reason, no inspiration, no discernible reason why, Just one long petulant, lamenting cry!
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  Patience. The girl with the side long gaze…c. 1470.. Petrus Christus Patience. Across the table she does patiently sit, While I pour forth with my urbane wit, Not a flinch of eye nor lift of brow, Gives away what she’s doubting now, That my weakness lay not in my verbs, But rather in my prolix words. So there she sits and there she knows, More solid in sound than an auctioneer’s close, Her sympathy smile like his gavel blows, Her words as gentle as a nurse’s touch, Never a hint that I am too garrulous, In the playful world of cunning men, She reveals so little, Because she knows so much!
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  Gaia. . . The Punished Son, 1778 …by Jean Baptiste Greuze Gaia. . . Nature destroys you before it kills you, She employs many means by which to break you, Calamity, disease, emotional distress, if you please, Before she kills you. She takes no prisoners, Shows no mercy, Spares no entity, But like the slow burn of spindle and bearing, We suffer the grind of pointless wearing. Look to no-one to ease the pain, For it is yours only..and so it will remain, Like the old red hen bent neck and dying, Set upon by the others, younger and thriving, There will be no ache relieving, From those you thought willing, To ease your anguish, To be thoughtful and forgiving. For with every caress, every patient soothe, Your end is not impeded..but in a way more crude, Does their kindly words assuage their own serious doubt, Give succour with such sympathetic, altruistic flout, But in vain, ...
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  The Last Ecstasy of The Forbidden Fruit. The Last Ecstasy of the Forbidden Fruit. .. A Play. A play of one set, one act. Characters..: Brother Brian Hurley..a stern Seminarian.(trainee for the priesthood). Millitich..an aged Serbian of generous proportion. He carries a blackthorn walking stick. Fr. Stephan O’Brian ..an aged priest . Allesandra…a middle-aged waitress of The Spiked Echidna CafĂ©. Scene..A heavily wooded office of a church..there is a crucifix on the wall, a statue of the Virgin Mary with child standing on one side of a Reubens print framed on the wall, with a matching statue of Jesus Christ with bleeding heart shown in the statue on the other side. The Seminarian, Brother Hurley sits at a table with a scattered array of brass candlesticks and religious paraphernalia of which he is polishing with “Brasso”…He turns to the audience, and converses in monologue as he busies himself polishing a candlestick. Br...
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  A Last, Lingering Kiss. A Play of one act, one set. Characters..: Sgt. Tom Flannigan..police officer. Father Dennis McCarthy…diocese priest. Sister Mary Margaret..School Principal / Nun. Scene: Sgt. Tom Flannigan sits at his work desk cataloguing a charge sheet along with a low stack of books that he transfers to a plastic evidence bag. Before he seals the bag, he picks up one of the books, opens it at a random page and starts to read out in an exaggerated theatrical manner.. Sgt. Tom..:” I can’t stop now!” she gasped a passionate moan as her arms reached for him..” I’ve desired you for too many nights.”…He responded huskily, his taut, muscular arms embracing her and driving out all resistance. It was as if some strange, torrid tempest had suddenly descended down on to their bodies as they struggled to outdo one another in the removal of their clothing. He grasped her in his arms and lifted her clear of the carpet, his lips pa...
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  A Miscellaneous Act. Mother and Child, 1865 by Frederic Leighton. A Play of one act, one scene. Characters..: Annette. Aged ; mid-sixties, wavy, brown hair, dressed conservatively middle-class. Soft, clear voice showing a determined disposition..certain in both her choice of words and movements. Scene : Annette sits on the edge of a lounge chair, leaning over a coffee table. She is in the process of writing in a greeting card on the table..she pauses in the action and lifts the card near to her to read what she has written on the card. Annette : “ Happy fortieth birthday, my dearest Pauline..and congratulations on your recent promotion, I’m certain the ward will now run more efficiently with you in charge…( She pauses and thinks for a moment before replacing the card on the table to continue writing, she then reads the rest of the card)..I’m sure your father will be looking down from above so very proud of you…Have a very nice birthday...
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  Love Me Tender…A Play. Nativity scene…18 th century..Flemish. (I have turned that short story of the same name into a short play. ) A one act, one set play. Characters: Kevin Cotton.. (Male..mid fifties, tall, with sardonic expressiveness) He is the Master of Ceremonies of the circus, an imposing figure in his M.C. outfit with top hat and tails. Beverly Cotton…His wife, around fiftyish, slender, long blonde hair, motherly type who is the “Tibetan Lions” tamer as well as skilled acrobat. She is dressed in her acrobat costume. Troppo, The clown…Tall, lanky male of indeterminate age as he is not seen without his stage clown makeup. He has a stoop to his frame and will twitch every now and then demonstrating some sort of substance-taking problem. Rex…Short, stumpy male around sixty years, with groomed mustacho and a bouffant style of hair. He is both the one man band and the orchestra for when the “Big Top” acts are playi...