Crawling Into A Fireplace Cackling - Lauren Bousfield

Ambition blunted and national verse

I put something I wanted into practice — and now I just feel sick

But the girl on the screen is staying alive up against a good wall with this

constant crescendoing fear

Please come home

Please come home safe

Pacing in the kitchen she is carried off

The people onstage can’t be heard

And in the end

In the slow motion of poverty belief in the part one is playing is important

Even if it cannot be judged by others

The audience can only try to guess whether the performer is sincere or cynical