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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530743" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Actress</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The actress stands upon the stage<br>And the bustling world that surrounds her<br>Silences.<br>Only on the stage is there<br>Solitude.<br>Only on the stage, <br>When pressed under the repellent gravity<br>Of open eyelids, is there<br>The peace of mind<br>To react instinctively<br>To the mechanics of social magnetism.<br>The spotlight burns down, bright upon her, <br>Softening her make-up—<br>Letting it melts slowly down her skin<br>As if it were a glass<br>		Through which we could see her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She prefers the classics<br>And the avant-garde<br>When she needs to perform.<br>She would rather have a brilliant tongue<br>Sit in her mouth behind her cosmetically<br>Bleached and re-calibrated teeth<br>And vibrate the words she could not imagine; <br>To speak the poetic vespers<br>That came deep from the dark mind's early gloaming.<br>She would like to exorcise the demons<br>That torment her in a public display<br>Of plagiarized mimicry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She would pantomime the emotions<br>She could not express, <br>And, in doing so, <br>She receives the pity and applause<br>That, through her abstruse personification, <br>She is not able to receive personally.<br>For a moment—<br>A moment of collective illusion—<br>She and the public<br>That loves her, <br>That would tear her down, <br>Can cry together<br>Over the suffering of the character<br>That possesses her nimble, choreographed frame.<br>Reality is suspended<br>And the air grows thick as the melodramatic dialog, <br>As both she and the world search<br>For the lingering traces of humanity<br>		In the commercial world of cynicism<br>And disbelief.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Later, she will peel off a layer of skin, <br>Unpainting the chiseled sculpture<br>Of her persona, <br>Revealing who she is behind the curtain<br>Of articulated gestures and scripted language.<br>She removes her costume<br>And stands naked in front of a mirror.<br>She looks at her reflection, <br>Wondering if she is looking upon herself<br>Or if her likeness is looking upon her.<br>		Perhaps she is the reflection, <br>She muses. The masks of the past<br>Peer down on her as she gets dressed, <br>The glowing light bulbs above her mirror<br>Cast a shadow down upon them<br>And they hide in the translucent cross-hatching<br>Of shades.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without her make-up, <br>Without her costume, <br>Without her direction, <br>Without her material to impersonate, <br>She is indistinguishable from the crowds on the street<br>That tousle around her<br>In their irregular patterns of comedy.<br>There, they do not recognize her talent, <br>Or that she is one of them, <br>As she wanders through their flurry<br>Of furcated destinations and desires.<br>		What separates them<br>Is not who they are, <br>But how they are manifested<br>By the things that compose in them<br>The saturated lines of interest.<br>She walks home.<br>They walk home.<br>Who is to say there is any difference?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tim+Stensloff">Tim Stensloff</a><div class=q>
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And the bustling world that surrounds her
Silences.
Only on the stage is there
Solitude.
Only on the stage, 
When pressed under the repellent gravity
Of open eyelids, is there
The peace of mind
To react instinctiv..."></div>
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