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poetryfoundation.orgby William Greenway
WEDNESDAY, 2 MARCH, 2005
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Poem: "Theater" by William Greenway, from Fishing at the End of the World. © Word Press. Reprinted with permission.
Theater
Like the neighborhood kind
you went to as a kid, full
of yellow light and red
velvet curtains and everybody
there, friends, bullies throwing
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