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# Critic's Notebook
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/critics-notebook/
- Published: 2023-12-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Considering the depth of your performance -- as shallow and as muddy as a puddle -- can't give you any points for non-conformance, assuming that desire to befuddle and discombobulate is what had driven creative choice...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Considering the depth of your performance --  
as shallow and as muddy as a puddle --  
can't give you any points for non-conformance,  
assuming that desire to befuddle  
and discombobulate is what had driven  
creative choices, set design and costumes,  
since those are sadly, nowadays, a given.

But I'll confess that like so many bridegrooms  
I entertained escape through intermission,  
though somehow, persevered to the finale,  
no, not because mine is a noble mission,  
but rather 'cause your goons out in the alley  
behind the theater refused me exit.  
So here is my review, I thought I'd text it.