please, no encore

some,

just some are different

off stage

than on.

when the play ends,

and the lights go down

and they retreat

back stage

to remove their

masks,

their sparkly gowns. 

it's then

that you see them 

for who they really are,

the sweetness gone,

the angel

now an awful bore,

but wasn't the performance

grand

i'll remember that,

but won't stand and applause,

or yell bravo

for an encore.