Book of Mormon

The theatre safety curtain shows

a cloudscape reaching blue aflame

like fiery ascension

or manipulation by a politician.

From the melee, every face arriving

encounters programme, iPhone

or partner, with senses conniving

craftily before a Big Show.

A trumpeter is practicing scales

clashing with the theatre of buzz

but the war ain’t started yet.

Drums overcome that puzzling trumpet

with an all American grin, anticipation,

firepower. Shock and Awe.