Exit with the Body

The body gets dragged into the wings
and put wherever there’s space,
but this gets harder to find
as the run goes along.

The lopped off hands and heads,
the guts lugged from the stage
night after night, pile up
until even the loading dock
and parking lot behind the theater
have mounds of bodies.

This is what’s behind the curtain.
A landscape of wounds and wreckage.
The bloody remains of these dreams.