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Streetcar Named Desire

Long deceased actors ‘play-acting On an unobserved TV set blaring from a vacant living room. In the kitchen a widower tends eggs splattering in a pan. Then came a loud interjection from the room beyond, “Hey, Stella!!” sending through him a trembling pall memories of his wife Stella who had died many years ago and never gotten over it. Still as a storefront manikin till the last memory faded he realized what taken place: the son-of-a-*itch burnt his eggs! Ding! Ding! I tricked you didn’t I?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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Date: 7/4/2014 2:55:00 PM
The format posted here is not the way it was originally written. I tried a second post but the result is still incorrect. The original lines were Octal Syllabic Verses.
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