LINES
ON RAISING THE CURTAIN OF THE ROGER S. BERLIND THEATRE
When the theatre-of -war's the theatre that's never dark
and the world-stage the stage on which nothing ever bombs,
when Presidents take their cue from a few oil-oligarchs,
and prize internment over interns, the "Axis" over axioms,
when John Ashcroft's poised to put Peggy in the shade
and Richard is quite outshone by Haliburton
and it's only behind the scenes the scenes are played
it's all the more important to raise the curtain
on a devil-ground where the angels who wait in the wings
are flown in on wires that can't be tapped,
where games played for mortal stakes, serious fun,
will help us again and again make sense of things,
where our minds are unveiled and our hearts unwrapped
from the first run-through until the end of the run.
