an article in a prestigious journal <br />claimed she won the Oscar because <br />they made her act with a rubber nose <br />the nose transformed her <br />from sex goddess <br />to tortured writer who ended up <br />putting rocks in her pockets walk in <br />over her head and drown <br />in a deep river it must <br />have been a great performance <br />she kept her composure throughout <br />even though the rubber nose <br />wanted to fall off after every cut <br />i was secretly rooting for the nose <br />to stay on but how could it? <br />it was so unnatural <br /> <br />she just had to go <br /> <br />when she walked into the river <br />insiders on location watched the nose <br />finally fall and float quietly <br />downstream <br />unfortunately the underwater camera <br />jammed and the most thrilling <br />shot of the film <br />was lost <br /> <br />hours later i couldn't help think <br />what a better writer <br />she could have been if only <br />she wasn't forced to wear that damned <br />suffocating rubber nose surely <br />the screenplay would have included <br />humor and she might have even believed <br />she was a little happier<br /><br />Stephen Roxborough<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/virginia-woolf-in-hollywood/
