November hymnal (2)

Showbiz being
a thing of tickets

and tickets of time
and place   thoroughly

entertaining in their own
right    and time of seconds

and place of firsts
as in first happenings

replacing what took
place there as if staged

for a closeup before
flowering into song

and song of summary
with the perspective of

an oncoming roundhouse
right to the flowering face

of death for which you
need no ticket and are

never late god I hate
showbiz