I tell him I’ve written
A Christian play.
He says
It’s not real, you know.
It’s dishonest.
God says don’t lie,
and that’s what actors do.
Try to be something they’re not.
All theatre is lies.
Satan’s work.
All actors are Satanists.
All playwrights their priests.
© 2017, Paul Brookes
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Jamie Dedes is a Lebanese-American poet and free-lance writer. She is the founder and curator of The Poet by Day, info hub for poets and writers, and the founder of The Bardo Group, publishers of The BeZine, of which she was the founding editor and currently a co-manager editor with Michael Dickel. Ms. Dedes is the Poet Laureate of Womawords Press 2020 and U.S associate to that press as well. Her debut collection, "The Damask Garden," is due out fall 2020 from Blue Dolphin Press.
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