no brain?

no brainer
three shows
two sellouts

busting an absolute gut to get a sold out sticker up on the boards
flyering like crazy
five six hours
super slick
the same old routine rattling slickly out three hundred times a day
honing honing honing the spiel
adding new comic lines
inflections
retimings
making them laugh and
slowly getting them in
...

show great
shattering
to do
am forty minutes in
completely exhausted
sweat-drenched
breathless
staggering
and then i get to the actual riot part of the story
...
and i think
o jesus no
o jesus here we goi
o jesus

peeping tom
not seen it for twenty years
what a marvelous film

priscilla says
i 'm depressed
the fringe is so mean and cruel
and i say
what do you mean, the reviews
and she says
yes
and well its true
bad shows get good reviews
good shows get iffy reviews
a few people get what they deserve
and one show i know has an outrageous review
maddening
disgusting even
that makes me mad as hell
a crass piece of small-minded stupidity from a good journalist in a decent publication

...
but well
and it might sound cowardly but
i am in no position to go round slagging off media
who have the power of life and death over my show