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# Novel or Play
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/novel-or-play/
- Published: 2024-06-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: The world is not a graphic novel. And not a play. Though there's no lack of shit to shovel in ways both typical and novel, nor lack of characters that may, to the astonishment of all, behave as if they're in a play. E...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

The world is not a graphic novel. And not a play.  
Though there's no lack of shit to shovel  
in ways both typical and novel,  
nor lack of characters that may,  
to the astonishment of all,  
behave as if they're in a play.  
Each curtain call,  
bow down and pray.

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**Author notes:** patterned after Frost's Fire and Ice. Image generated by GPT