Basta

Frowns of a Summer’s Day

By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 27, 2016

Basta

Lawn party yesterday
Gorgeous weather
In soft shade
Under the tent
Italian lady
Learned English
Attending theatre
We talked about
Tennessee Williams
Terrible production
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
We agreed
Mediocre at best
More travesty than tragedy
Probing deeper
She admires Miller
More enduring
Universal themes
Did you see
View from the Bridge
On Broadway
Stark and brilliant
Deconstructed
To Williams I added
Eugene O’Neill
So repetitious
She observed
Dated content
No controversy today
Told same story
Over and over
There was nothing
Left of them
Consumed by
Funeral pyre of self
How many lives
Do you have
I asked her
Thinking
Sensing a trap
Cautiously answered
One of course
Exactly
The great artists
Eat themselves
Cannibals
Guts stuffed into
Sausage consumed
By audiences
Same story
Told over and over
Until no more
Flesh on bones
The last works
Gasps of dust
Ashes-to-ashes
Of their art
Unlike Miller
The great ones
Do that
Exquisite corpses
Discussed
During lunches
Of the bourgeois
Casual conversations
Of lost lives