CHARLIE CHAPMAN
Les Merton
‘Break a
Leg’.
Out of
shadows into the spotlight.
Butterflies,
nervous
colours flutter with silent wings.
Isolated
the blank
face of mime.
Charlie
remembers
gestures
speak louder than words.
Instantly
being
understood by players and audience.
He is
transparent
through the
grease paint, an open book.
Remembered in
black and white
clear as the
printed word, Charlie.