the actor

the actor

When I was a child, my uncle played a police officer
on a stage impressed ,I addressed him as Sir?
Mother said he was an actor
When in my twenties, I wanted to become an actor
Not tiny roles and say one line, open a door
and say. "This way Madame."
No, I wanted to play heroic figures from history
not a starving cobbler in a black and white movie
there are many everyday heroes like
a man high up on a ladder painting a house should
he fall, I would break a leg or killed.
Take a cook who, after making the millionth burger
does not scream, but they never make it to the screen
Mind, I think it was Al Pacino who played a cook who
was an alphabet and couldn't read what was in a tin
it could have been rat poison.
He was sent to learn basic reading skills and met
a lovely girl, and his wonder when a magic world
of literature was his to enter, a walk-in role for me.