Knees tremble, eyes run,
Stomach aches, it's just begun.
Walk the boards, take the stage,
Room is blurry, lost my page!
Try to sing, splutter, wheeze,
Director shouts: "Next please!"
Audition over, lost the part,
Made a fool, in the name of art.
[Another old one, written 2002/2003]
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