Ladies and Gentlemen

Approaching The Cup

Tonight, for your enjoyment, a stage

Where newlyweds don't touch as they undress.

Please, don't smirk if this seems grotesque

Or hint that the show might cancel

Before its characters assemble

Their dignity, or more realistically,

A few new clever ways to be,

Or even to pretend to be.

Go, return, clear a place to place the urn.

An audience may applaud with glee

The great soloist's deaf progeny,

But the unannounced will claim anyone.

At intermission some must pay.

Stay seated. At curtain's fall you'll have your turn.

Fingers fumble at their robes. Then hunt.

Though a kiss is all we want. If we want.