I love the location in the Italian Alps.
Descriptions of the costumes are exciting.
The dialogue is smoldering smoke,
but crisp.
I like the story,
a masterpiece of writing.
It has humor
well mixed with your sensitivity.
Some of the suggested casting is marvelous.
But have you cast me in the right role?
Should I not be the kindly old king?
Perhaps the Minister from France.
But a shirtless pirate with glistening chest
smiling, brave and dashing,
but dead so early in the first act.
Is that the me you want to cast?
Is that the only role for me?
I know it is just a play
and you need me
to fill some strange roles.
True, I am what you would have me be.
But a shirtless pirate?
I will bet there is
another part in your play for me?
How about the old gardener
or the merchant?
Perhaps you could write in a visitor
from the 21st century.
Ah! I have it;
the tutor to the prince.
But, anything else would do.
Please not a shirtless pirate.
I thought you wrote
the play for me.