<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Play</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the only actor.<br>It is difficult for one woman<br>to act out a whole play.<br>The play is my life,<br>my solo act.<br>My running after the hands<br>and never catching up.<br>(The hands are out of sight -<br>that is, offstage.)<br>All I am doing onstage is running,<br>running to keep up,<br>but never making it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Suddenly I stop running.<br>(This moves the plot along a bit.)<br>I give speeches, hundreds,<br>all prayers, all soliloquies.<br>I say absurd things like:<br>egss must not quarrel with stones<br>or, keep your broken arm inside your sleeve<br>or, I am standing upright<br>but my shadow is crooked.<br>And such and such.<br>Many boos. Many boos.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Despite that I go on to the last lines:<br>To be without God is to be a snake<br>who wants to swallow an elephant.<br>The curtain falls.<br>The audience rushes out.<br>It was a bad performance.<br>That’s because I’m the only actor<br>and there are few humans whose lives<br>will make an interesting play.<br>Don’t you agree?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Anonymous submission.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Sexton">Anne Sexton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345501" data-title="The Play de Anne Sexton" data-description="I am the only actor. It is difficult for one woman to act out a whole play. The play is my life, my solo act. My running after the hands and never catching up. (The hands are out of sight - that is, offstage.) All I am doing onstage is running, ru..."></div> </div> </div>

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