Kaia Mann

Don’t laugh don’t laugh don’t

Laugh don’t laugh don’t laugh don’t laugh

Don’t laugh don’t you dare

 

Talk slower because

You are talking too fast and

No one understands

 

Listen and respond

respond to what she says to

To you and react

 

Change delivery

Of my lines and my movements

For a real response

 

Red couch disappears

From the black box theatre where

The hell did it go

 

Roll up roll down my

Spine to relax and feel calm

To steady my breath

 

Dropping in is like

Taking a test while high you

Focus later on

 

But once you drop in

The world disappears you are

Alone with Sara

 

Kaia pinches me

And I have to respond but

Ouch is hard to do

 

Alec is sick and

I don’t want to kiss her cause

I too will get sick

Fever so recent

Lips on lips is bad idea

Dress rehearsal though

 

Haikus seem a weird

Expression of rehearsals

But it’s just more art

 

Must slow down the lines

No matter how slow I go

It is still too fast

 

This pull-out couch is

Not a little bit comfy

The floor is so hard

 

Time races by when

We are on stage did the scene

Just take twenty mins