Theatre, Michelle Chaplin
Theatre, Michelle Chaplin

This is an erasure poem, and its source text is “The Theatre Party” by Christopher Dewdney, which can be found in the publication Verse.

THEATRE

Man grinds his organ.

Psychic dolls cripple fear.

Arms congratulate blue-eyed wonder —

palms extend, conscious of expending energies.

Man is a masked situation, a macabre ball.

M. Chaplin