He dusts each of his poems with great care <br />and recites them-then declares in a blare: <br />'Never more on the shelf! Encore! Always myself! ' <br />But curtain down... his mental stage is cast bare....<br /><br />Shelley Byron Keats<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-empty-stage-no-props/
