(Enter Darkness)

‘Tis only the first floor of the tower on which thy breath rests,

Crash, Crack, Collapse, Collide,

There’s more to me;

Deeper than the coffin that held death for thee,

Wilder than the howling wolves,

Of thy beaten paper crease…

(Enter Death)

‘Tis not just the rusted cars that screech a new tire,

The poisoned telephone booths call in conversations hushed and macabre.

Late lights of somnolent towns

Beating in a crow’s eye like punched pages of sonnets,

Show ghosts of summers sultry,

Vampires of smiles perfectly sketched…

Dive into the grave, will you?

This infinite fall, ‘tis stupid to think,

That we shall play,

A past game with you.

(Enter)

Pick the dots, I place them right,

Tie threads round them, curl a snake’s fang to imprison,

Bind…

Blood in ink

Do I chart my pieces correctly?

Is the ear, the eye?

The teeth a crown, the hands a distorted mind?

Dream in this death, Dream in this darkness,

Dream;

There’re wonderful things I might see,

Old stars, a forgotten astrology,

The maddening movie of greyed peace...

(Typewriter dings)

(A voice of knife slashing paper rings, “Message for thee! There’s a message for thee!”)

A ticket falls, like the corpse of a leaf…

Theatre Theatre Theatre

Midnight Twilight 12

(Enter an unknown voice silky)

So, grab your popcorn, call the codes of our scarlet seats your own,

Spin, whirl, a haunted projector,

Applause!

Here comes magician Darkness!

There lying in wait, joining him now, is illusionist Death!

Welcome to their eternal theatre,

To this secret hideout, where tonight, the most talented of all do feature!

Pace your hearts to our haunted marches,

Draw your eyes grey, tick-tock,

tick-tock

Tick-tock- wish on our night watches

‘Tis time to start again!

Clap! Clap! Clap!

(Enter Darkness)