#685 - silent sketch

 

17.xi.21

685

2.321

silent sketch

 

dumb show

 

back in the day and today

 

servant brings the mask and fits it to a face

another brings a handheld device

scans the code on the wall

a third presents the proclamation

(lips move then)

 

judge in a whisper

town crier too

 

each in proper costume

 

‘bring out your dead’

jumble of limbs on a cart

a priest pronounces this

see the rebels hanging

 

a tissue and all fall down

(my beautiful apocrypha)

 

that was then

 

now

hapless fumble

to mask oneself

to keep away

cut from the one cloth

to show

to scan

to swab

to google

chase tail

 

a spin of all the limbs with this

 

the while protesting

placard, sandwich

trying to get attention

with a megaphone as well

and

scorning all one’s betters

holding out a noose