You say you love the theatre life
and all that it entails
you have a plan to put on a show
but planning is where you fail.
Am I the only straight guy here?
It seems so from what I can tell
and you cast me as the villain, no less
I already think I'm in hell.
we've blocked act one eight weeks already
and never the same way twice...
I really think we should move to act two,
before opening night would be nice!
and who is the dork in the sound-effects booth?
where did you find such a dunce?
he's either deaf or retarded or both
he hasn't cued in right once!
Your costume director is the flaming type
and his cheap perfume makes me sick
and while he was fitting me for my part
he tried to fondle my...well, lets not go there!
so in short, i can't wait for this program to end
so i can put this all behind
because if one more drama-queen peeks at my butt
I'm going to go out of my mind!
Author notes
be my Yoko Ono
Imay have misunderstood the idea for this contest. you see, where i come from, "drama Queen" means "theatre fag"
Written June 19th, 2005
In a list
A contest entry
- Save The Drama For Your Mama!! by Ari Ro.
500 points, ended June 27, 2005, 9 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Awesome-nessh, dude. You took the idea and made it into something that I think is HILARIOUS. When you rhymed, I liked it... but you kinda went off-key in the middle. ... but that's still cool.
So "drama queen" means "theatre fag?" Huh... shrugs Who'dda thunk it? Anyway, dis was wonderful, and it made me laugh. ^_^ Good luck in the contest!
~Bishonenkoi
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this is a very fine write with wonderful flow and solid rhyme where you used it i would have to agree i too like to read rhyming poetry when consistant BUT this is a very enjoyabl write good job
love and light
blaze -
Ah you tell a great story here, I had each character pictured in my mind.....oh sweeti darling, how wonderful...teehee.
Great big smile from start to finish, good luck -
I enjoyed this and could happily have read more in the same vein.
Your deliberate drop of rhyme (don't go there) fits in with a long tradition so it works for me. I might have changed verse 1 line 4 into "but your planning always fails" to make the first rhyme that bit stronger. However your version didn't stop me reading a very nice piece.
Thanks for sharing.
Oh and I like the name too. Thoth the Scribe who wrote the story of our Reality. An ambitious title to live upto. keep trying.
Jim S
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Well did the play had a gala night?
I like the personas in your poem.
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oh my what a giggle!
I loved this there was good rhythm but you lost your beat in a few places...there was one part I was hoping for some theatre jargon to fill in the "let's not go there", it would likely be more smooth. I'd suggest something but my theatre mind runs blank. having done lots of theatre in me life, I'll get back at ya with that one!
I simply laughed quite so hard at this:
and who is the dork in the sound-effects booth?
where did you find such a dunce?
he's either deaf or retarded or both
he hasn't cued in right once!
sounds like some of the crew i've worked with
hope you break your leg...or the director's instead
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Well. Not exactly what I was expecting. Humourous with a touch of sexism and some poor grammar. Tsk tsk. If you're going to start out with capitals at the beginning of your stazas then please, carry it all the way through. Other than that, the piece was quite nicely written, it made me smile and is farily accurate of how things tend to go in show business, You get there, do your thing, its not good enough so you do it over and over and over until you run out of time for anything else. Including your life. Nicely captured.
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Yes, the name is Egyptian. it means "Tahuti (Thoth) is content", and no, I am not FROM Egypt, but I follow the old religion.
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HaHa! I have to laugh with you here, the tone I get from your poem is that you are annoyed, and like you are making fun. I love the part about the guy with the cheap perfume, that was great.
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This was a really interesting write with good flow and rhyme.
By the way, there's an Egyptianness to your username - are you from there?
Robin. -
Life is a poem... and here you prove it so el
Sigh, the price of humor... life experience to turn into tongue-in-cheek... experience as here you have accomplished so deftly... "Your costume director is the flaming type
and his cheap perfume makes me sick
and while he was fitting me for my part
he tried to fondle my...well, lets not go there!
so in short, i can't wait for this program to end
so i can put this all behind
because if one more drama-queen peeks at my butt
I'm going to go out of my mind!" Many thanks for the smiles... and an entire viewpoint I did not know until now... wishing you and yours much success in all of your endeavors
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Being an old theatre hack myself, I know what that's like. I liked this...made me smile. I think, however, that you should make the rhyming a bit more consistent. It's nice as it is, but suddenly going from rhyming to nonrhyming is a tad jarring. But I digress. Nice work.
Cheers,
Yossarian -
lol I suppose there are hazards to working in theater eh?
I like this, though, made me laugh. Good luck in the contest.
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YEAH!!!!
Oh, Christ, does this ROCK!!!! Yeah, baby!!!
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