Look at her!
She is writing
my words ---
stealing my voice
to ink it as her own.
I would scream,
but she has cut
my vocal chords
into plagiarism.
Even this nudge
on her shoulder
won’t dislodge her pen.
She just keeps copying
my thoughts across
the lined pages.
Is there nothing new
under the sun?
Or are we caught in
a spiral of cosmic
verbal recycling?
She says her muse
is the inspiration
for her work……
Why does this
artificial poet
look just like me?
The "fourth wall" refers to the imaginary barrier which exists between the "open box" of a theatrical stage and the people gathered below in the seats. "Breaking the fourth wall" is a literary trope in which a character, in a play, cartoon strip, movie or novel, acknowledges their fictionality by directly addressing the reader, making eye contact with the audience or acknowledging their role as a presentation of reality.
Kerry O'Conner at Real Toad's posed the question : Can the fourth wall be broken in poetry for rhetorical or dramatic effect?" This is my attempt to prove it can be done.
Kerry's Wednesday Challenge ~ Breaking the Fourth Wall
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