Elephant On An Opera Stage
By Duane Simolke
You read your program schedule
and ask me to leave.
I don’t belong here.
The thunder of my footsteps
echoes too loudly
for your establishment.
You call me a stupid beast.
Even with my size,
I manage to retreat
back into the shadows.
(From my book Holding Me Together: Essays and Poems).
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