The Gallery Boys

The Gallery Boys

“The rebuffs I have

got from all of you!”

—James R. Barrie

Peter Pan or the Boy Who

Would Not Grow Up

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You Gallery Boys —

You Peter Pans my Masters!

How many lines abandoned —

Hidden away because of you?

Something snotty you’d say —

Leering at me in the balcony!

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It’d be simply the end of me—

As Tragedian and Comedienne!

Your Penny Dreadful sneers —

Up there me down on my knees!

It was all grossly immoral —

My jaded Boy Theater of Love

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You were all such a Rowdy Bunch —

My true Gang of Lost Boys!!!

Shouting and hooting all the time —

Every Performance with its Blowjobs!

You were my best Critics! —

I trusted your jizzy Judgments!

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Sometimes you’d say:  “C’mon —

I dare you to put that in your play!”

It would be shockingly obscene —

Something right out of the gutter!

Not Sweet Nothings either, my dear—

Instead excitingly dirty as Sin!

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Some of my best dialogue came —

From The Gallery Boys way up There

The Lost Boys in the highest tiers —

In the cheapest admission seats

They’d throw torn-up Programs —

Down on the Audience below

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And if the Play was bad and lousy —

They’d throw rotten eggs instead!

The Gallery Boys my young Masters —

They’d Never Ever Grow Up!!

Peter Pan the Boy who Flew —

Way up there in the Highest Tiers!!!