This ain't figure it out as you go

Winging-it is not for everyone
in fact if you plan on picking up the mic
please, for everybody listening...make it good-memorable
positive stuff favored but even roll on the floor ignorance
is better than a deer in the road frozen where am I face
lasting exactly 3 minutes long...what happened?

I couldn't think of what to say next?

What?!

Yea that lady with the purple Afro-Mohawk walked in and...

And what...you couldn't think straight?

I, I mean...well...

Well what?  You're going to have to tell me something
these people paid for a 2 hour show baby and all you gave us was 10 minutes

I'm sorry, I know but that Afro-Mohawk was blocking the poster

The poster, what poster...wait you mean the big full-length poster of you on the back wall?!

Yea, I practice in the mirror so looking at myself helps...gives me ideas too

Huh!  You have got to be kidding
you mean to tell me
you didn't have your set prepared
you didn't memorize anything, write out your script or nothing...
just think you can plant yourself on a soapbox with a mic
hit it in front of crowd who don't know you from Adam....

But she blocked the poster and at home the mirror always...

The mirror...poster-home...what?!  You can't be serious...

I just needed a comfortable place to look...then I could honestly tell my story

Look at me...looking into someones eyes...other than your own
that's as honest and comfortable as it gets
otherwise ask yourself why you're in this business...
I'm keeping your cut tonight...go take a class somewhere...
had to pull out every trick in my bag to save our box office...

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman