Overwrought

Overwrought



Garbo is
Making a movie
Playing a professor
With haughty sex appeal
Lecturing
To the camera
Pointing
A baton
At the ignorant
Audience
Parroting
Lines she's learned, that
She believes are literal
Sensible
Worrisome
Important
Truth

Convictions are
Created

Convictions attract
Circling attendant bodies

Convictions are
Weight

An undeniable mass attracts
Insignificant objects

Gravity

Centers

Attention 

And deciding somewhere
Behind her projecting voice, her
Made-up
Emoting eyes

It's all b.s.

"Not my job,"
Is sinking in on her

The speeches sounding the same
Whether unreal or
Evidentiary

"Don't listen

Don't even
Look

I don't honestly
Know anymore

Don't ask
Don't pay for a

Performance

Don't make me
Want

To say, to show you
My libido
My words
Anything"

It was suggested she
Get into her Bentley
Drive herself away
In the silent night
Stare at all the stars
Where polluting spotlights
Could not
Intrude

Then
At a single one

In mascara
In the rear-view

And see





by Coke Brown Jr. -
as posted on Coke's Croaks -
www.cokescroaks.com