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Waiting for a Schmo: Theater of the Absurd!
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
19 Jan 2022
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Waiting for a Schmo: Theater of the Absurd!
Waiting for a Schmo: Theater of the Absurd!

Waiting for a Schmo:

Theater of the Absurd!

Waiting for a Schmo

Munchkin—or the other—

is Theater of the Absurd!

Myth of Boer swineherd

of coal, gas, oilbird…Absurd!

Who’s Afraid of West Virginia

Wolf in a Brooks Brothers suit

thickening a thin plot: Millions dying?

Two tramps, frontmen for fossil fools and warlords of Wall Street—

Pentagon pimps—stand center stage projecting corporate power.

The two Lilliputian politicians gesticulate wildly as they move stage Right

for months. Ambient sounds include shareholders oinking gleefully.

One protagonist is Ike, the other Mike.One's good cop, the other

bad. One’s forceful, the other deceptive… They continue babbling

in corporate counterpoint. Their bizarre, disconnected dialogue makes

Absolutely no sense to you! You can’t understand a damn thing they’re

saying— or doing… You see strings from their shoulders orchestrating

stage business— Invisible hands of the market are up their asses making

their mouths move! But, you suspend disbelief every two to four years…

More months moving stage right, blabbering bellicose phrases, farting

cellophane threats at no one in particular… You’ve paid hard-earned money

subscribing to schlock! Your high threshold for pain and terrible theater can

only go so far with dismal dialogue:

“Buzzword” “Platitude” “Buzzword” “High fructose corn syrup slogan” “Build back better”

“…get something done…” “Voting rights” “I cannot support…” “working across the aisle”

“…get something done…” “I cannot support…” “60 vote threshold” “Filibuster” “bipartisan buy

in” “…get something done” “freeze Afghan assets” “bipartisan buy-in” “sanction Iran” “masks”

“tests” “masks” “tests” “too expensive” “I cannot support…” “…get something done” “60 vote

threshold” “bipartisan buy-in” “paid sick leave” “medicare for all” “how will we pay for

it?!” “build back better” “dagger at the throat of our democracy” “how will we pay for

it?!”“$768 billion for war” “NATO” “Guantanamo” “Juan Guaidó” “bipartisan buy-in” begging

the question: When will we storm the stage, slinging shoes and shouting “STOP the

performance!!”??

© 2022. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

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