(Am I?) That Guy

Em Glasspool @2022

I’m that guy
dish evil lead
beard – i got one but
too much everywhere
hair
yelling
crayon sign
it’s the end time sign
end of the world end of the world
jack daniels brr bonfire water world
end time and time again
no matter how many times you say everyone moves away
away from you
when i look like i do
i look like - that guy
stained pants and crazy eyes
screaming on streets
crack head, drunk, freak
and no one comes near
and fire flood come hell son
I’m the thing they all fear
what’s the one thing you don’t want to hear when you’re giving wille nelson
a blow job?
I’m not willie nelson
well im not willie nelson no more just a bum, an eye sore
people actually glare
stop, spit, stare
it’s the end of the world i scream inside a glass jar pool
i’m an artist i’m saying something true i scream I’m still an artist till my face turns blue no one listening them that knew - me
no recognition
look right through
things i built all been erased
screaming as a pool of glass surrounds
my drowning face
and then this cruel-est joke of all - this passing time
unheard, alone, and words and thoughts soundless chime and
NO ONE likes a fucking mime...
no. one. Likes. A Fucking.
MIME

Em Glasspool is a Bodies in Translation collaborator, a theatre artist, and Executive and Artistic Director of Mysterious Entity Theatre.