Some soft-muscled kid,
sand kicked in his face,
grows up to write movies
where the tough guys lose.
Late night, soft-white GE light
shines down on his battle-page,
him cast as the victor,
shattering the myth
that girls only like the jocks.
Red blood ink spills from the pen,
his sword
as he lops off the head
of some bar-belled body built,
clean-cut Adonis.
His night is productive,
as he wins another round,
another scene,
and the morning finds him
slumped over his work,
the green gleam on his phone machine
calling him to arms again.
G. M. Lupo is an author and award-winning playwright living in Middle Georgia. His play, Opposites Detract, premiered at Amplifest by Merely Players Present in 2019 and his work A Debt to Pay, premiered at Tapas III, Academy Theatre, Hapeville, GA in June 2018. His full-length play, Another Mother, won the 2017 Essential Theatre Play Writing Award, and received its world premiere in Atlanta in August 2017. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild. His most recent publication is Rebecca, Too (2018), a novel, available at online book sellers and in eBook format at Books2Read.com/RebeccaToo.
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