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The Day I Discovered the Moon

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By Amos GladePublished 5 months ago • 1 min read

The day I discovered the moon.

[Darkness]

[Spotlight – Center Stage]

Enter the free-willed buffoon who stops in place to presume, is this

THE END

The audience would like to have seen?

When the audience enters off scene.

A hush falls the crowd as wonders are told

That day turned to night turned to day

When cresendo he met with the witch

The audience applause raised a titch

On the night he would shift to their pray?

The buffoon does a dance

Yet the audience yawns

The buffoon pissed his pants

And the audience fawns

The buffoon’s final chance and he needs them to clap

So he screams out the witch incantation

But much to the buffoons

great elation:

The audience departs, that’s a wrap!

And the only thing left to be certain

Take a bow and

[Draw open the curtain]

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    Written by Amos Glade