Show It's She Failed to By MARY LYTHGOE I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I I wish he'd stay Hughs After I emerged from the I decided I had suffered all it was possible to But somewhere along the way I had failed to take Acting is where you bowl without a bowling drop dead three times in three and imitate the activities and personality of an empty dairy queen It's Just Pretending Acting is pretending to be some-thing you're If you're the gentle you pretend to be a degenerate slut in a bar If you're the motherly kind who loves you strangle a couple of imaginary If you're used to flirting with all the you may learn what it's like to be a All of these antics are Aside from an occasional cold you feel perfectly healthy when you enter But after dying of TB for ten minutes on a hard bench under an ethereal you're lucky if you're able to glide out in a pine Is Hardy I personally am a hardy I haven't been on this campus three years for At least that's what I tell myself when I can stop my teeth from I always wear my coat and the sun is always shining when I walk to but I always shiver I am greeted each day by a set of wan faces that try to and an instructor who turns out all the lights but one pale pink one and is so pleasant that he almost makes us This is a handsome psychologist from whom nothing remains a Rids Inhibitions He puts us through a series of stunts and gyrations which include opening locked committing dire and feeling with our hands such materials as and The catch we are not allowed to use This way we either rid ourselves entirely of our or trade them in on new Whatever I know If I can just live through nothing can ever phase me that's what I said the quarter I took |