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Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

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Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

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HOSTILE AUDIENCE

Hamlet & Faust
sit in front row seats.

Romeo & Juliet
have best balcony seats.

Othello & Lear
are in the gods.

I tread carefully
hearing each board squeak

as I step
forward to speak

Soliloquise
my self.

They catcall
heckle me

relentlessly.

“Go on mate!
See if you can
do any better!
It isn’t easy...is it? ”

“Call yourself a fictional character...eh? ”

Now...

is the winter

of my discontent.

Dónall Dempsey

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

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Scarlett Treat 06 February 2008

Yes, and the truth will out when we perform what sounded so good and eloquent in our bathrooms...in front of a Hostile Audience. They are rather hard to please, aren't they?

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