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…..