{"id":1681,"date":"2022-05-11T10:46:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T17:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2022-05-11T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:21:39","slug":"improvising-with-a-light-saber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/05\/11\/improvising-with-a-light-saber\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvising With a Light Saber"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Improvising With a Light Saber<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before you left
\nHome –
\nby Home I mean
\nyour Place on
\nBoulevard de Cosmos –
\nyou auditioned to
\nplay a Part
\nin this Theater of
\nBittersweet Conundrums,
\nwherein you have
\na single
\nStage Direction:<\/p>\n

Improvise scenes, from
\nbarren and blasphemous to
\nbodacious and beautiful,
\nin which Love –
\nby Love I mean
\nthat Potion
\nboiling in a
\nCauldron in
\nThe Mystery,
\na drop of which
\nwill sprout roses
\nfrom a rock, or
\nturn a festering
\nwound into a
\nTattoo of Incendiary
\nGorgeousness –<\/p>\n

scenes in which
\nyou wield a
\nLight Saber,
\ndipped in Love,
\nin the face of
\nDeath,
\nwhatever costume
\nit\u2019s wearing.<\/p>\n

Question:<\/p>\n

Have you grown
\nweary,
\nconvinced you\u2019re
\nnot up to
\nthis Role of a
\nLifetime?
\nPainfully aware of
\nall your missed
\ncues and
\nbutchered lines?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard
\nthe Director
\nthinks otherwise,
\nand your audience is
\nrapt.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no script here,
\nBrando,
\nwe\u2019re improvising.<\/p>\n

And we\u2019ve got
\nlight years to
\nget it right.<\/p>\n

(Photo by Tobias Cornille; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Improvising With a Light Saber Before you left Home – by Home I mean your Place on Boulevard de Cosmos – you auditioned to play a Part in this Theater of Bittersweet Conundrums, wherein you have a single Stage Direction: Improvise scenes, from barren and blasphemous to bodacious and beautiful, in which Love – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}