Audition
Stasia Ward Kehoe
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I feel his arm Lightly Over me. He takes one of my outstretched hands. Draws it beneath my stomach. "One more time..." This is not sex, Not friendship. Something Strange Special In the stillness of his breath, The waterlike way he moves. He is making a dance. We are making a dance.”
“I am pretty sure the myth of me Is better than the reality.”
“Wish my life were inside a book So I could turn to the ending, See if it is a love story Or a gothic disaster.”
“It is strange to hear my words Read back to me. I don't think I wrote them To have them ever leave the page. I think I only write What happens across my brain When my feet are too weary To dance anymore.”
“Am I lonelier now Than when my sad imagination Had him disappear? Heart torn, Loosing tiny droplets Of sorrow No tape can measure No needle can mend.”
“Do I dare ask him for what I want, As if I knew it, Could find it on some page In some chapter In some book?”
“It seems to me that every day Is an audition.”
“Is truth here In the ugly unseemliness? The graceless moments Before and after Eyes are watching? In the unballerina The unperformed?”
“I hover over myself Watching. Mind and body separated, Each in control As though there are two puppeteers Working the strings of my marionette self.”
“Her body disappears like my voice When I look too closely in the mirror Without the pages of a notebook, a pen To save me.”
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