Do Not Go To Acting School by Robert Bruce

This is one of my favourite poems, read it and enjoy. Happy New Year!

I spent thousands of dollars
attending a supposedly
prestigious conservatory
learning a craft
that can only be learned in one place

On a stage
in front of a paying audience

In return for the horrific debt
that now rests on me
and my loving wife
I was given the high privilege
of spending three years
acting like an actor
in small classrooms
before other paying players
in a small town on the
outskirts of Hollywood

Needless to say
my time in this institution
did not
work the wonders
for my tender career
that I had hoped for

I understand that
my failure to become
an international superstar
is completely my own
but looking back
I realize
that I could have
failed much more
on the cheap

And without their help