Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


WHO’S AFRAID OF 
VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)

“I swear if you existed
I’d divorce you”—Martha
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
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But what did I know?—
I knew Nothing back then

Blanche and Bette Davis—
Were bad enough for me
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My big mistake was going—
To the Bijou Theater again

There in my ding-bat little—
College town for a movie
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The worst movie I could’ve—
Picked after graduating then

It would have to be awful—
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
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It was all so crazy—
Truly Theater of the Absurd

Just ask Miss Genet—
Beckett or Edward Albee
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It’s all so Absurd—
Their plays say so what?

Like just look at me—
Was I scared or afraid?
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Was I afraid of her—
Afraid of Virginia Wolf?

“What a dump!!!”—
Elizabeth Taylor remarks
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She and Richard Burton—
Back from a faculty party

The old Bette Davis line—
Updating to the dreary now
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The dreary-deary Now—
Their dumpy shabby home

Such a lovely college town—
Way out there in the sticks
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Both of them sick of it—
And both sick of each other

Sound familiar maybe—
Whether gay or straight?
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Marriage so very lovely—
Whether Hetero or Homo

Pretty soon we all get—
Disgusted with each other
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So we invent Lies and—
Absurdist melodramas

To keep up the façade—
Even tho Life’s a Dump
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And so, my dears—
My life ended up ruined

I ended up afraid of—
Bette, Joan and Elizabeth
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But even worse—
I ended up awfully afraid

Looking at myself—
There in the mirror…..




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