Theater Stand

Performance regards with comfort
confidences. Each minuet is a 
minute away from the second
to last. Wrists wrest the band
from the hand to hand and 
help each dweller repel the
urge to tell it again. A story 
functions as a guideline, un
handed by its narrator and
set atop the head of another
helpless protagonist. Author
ethereal gives vagaries the
cruelty they cannot bear,
for the steam is a beam 
through which none
may come away.