I Can See You...Postscript

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“I will never be as good as these others, you say; their applause means nothing, their comments mean nothing, I mean nothing…

“Do you think I need you to tell me that?

“I don’t, I know it already…

"Oh, I can see you alright………..."

The reader addresses the audience again:

“Perhaps I won’t read anymore tonight after all….”

POSTSCRIPT

In the solitue of his own home, the speaker addresses the figure in the doorway....

"Are you happy now?....

"You have won...

" 'Perhaps I won't read anymore tonight after all' I said...

"I think I won't read ever again....

"I see you, I hear you, I break beneath you...."