Materiality

So its somewhere between what you like to think 

of as esoterica and that important exotic bit which 

intervenes when the going gets far too mundane - 

but you’ve never played that scene anyway, its a 

boring character-choice avoided, & too dramatic 

for space outside any theatre, or say too drek to 

be restrained by good manners; so here we are - 

in pedantry’s alleyway, or nowhere in particular 

It’d never been a problem before today - at least 

you can say that for real, but being aware and in 

two minds of what it means is histrionics afoul & 

the dramas concealed; is this a new me for real 

or a just character one escapes into if the clash 

of arcane and faraway congeals materiality 

© 14 January 2015, I. D. Carswell