Getting on with the Ceremony
The clinking
of glasses.
The shuffling
of feet.
The scraping
of chairs.
A lapse
into coma
halfway
thru the
ceremony.
An ambulance
without sirens
two men with
a stretcher.
Clear the
stage of
misfortune
hand out
the awards.
Between the
lines where
our lives
are lived,
midgets with
Lugers,
corked bottles
barren of
news.
