Jul 2015
A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS
I cut my self
out of the mirror.
My reflection
tinkles to the floor.
I sweep up
these shards of self
with red
dust pan and brush.
Well, that's enough
of this
me
for the moment.
I think to
my self
and wander off
to find
the me
I have
yet to be
discarding
what I have been
reading
Middleton's
A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS.
I cut my self
out of the mirror.
My reflection
tinkles to the floor.
I sweep up
these shards of self
with red
dust pan and brush.
Well, that's enough
of this
me
for the moment.
I think to
my self
and wander off
to find
the me
I have
yet to be
discarding
what I have been
reading
Middleton's
A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS.
A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS is a Jacobean stage play written by Thomas Middleton,a comedy first performed around 1605 and first published in 1608. The title is proverbial, and was used by a pamphleteer, Nicholas Breton, in 1603. The title later became the basis for the title of Stanley Kramer's 1963 film, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".
The title of the play was proverbial a phrase dismissive of the craziness of life. Another Middleton play goes by the well known title of ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE!
The title of the play was proverbial a phrase dismissive of the craziness of life. Another Middleton play goes by the well known title of ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE!
