READY FOR HER CLOSE UP

She spoke as if
she were speaking

...in NEON*

as if her words
were Broadway plays

proclaiming themselves
on first nights.

She looked upon one
as if one were

a to be or...not to be.

Her laughter was pure
theatre

she would "Ah dahling!"
you to death!

I always felt
like an audience

in the cheap seats.

She always "just was"
as if one were lucky to be

here where she

acted her self

out.