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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

"The Art Teacher"

There I was in uniform
Looking at the art teacher
I was just a girl then;
Never have I loved since then
He was not that much older than I was
He had taken our class to the Metropolitan Museum
He asked us what our favorite work of art was,
But never could I tell it was him
Oh, I wish I could tell him --
Oh, I wish I could have told him
I looked at the Rubens and Rembrandts
I liked the John Singer Sargents
He told me he liked Turner
Never have I turned since then
No, never have I turned to any other man
All this having been said,
I married an executive company head
All this having been done,
a Turner - I own one
Here I am in this uniformish, pant-suit sort of thing,
Thinking of the art teacher
I was just a girl then;
Never have I loved since then
No, never have I loved any other man

I am reciting this in my acting class and I need to know who the woman is saying this to. Is she talking to herself, perhaps in a mirror or in a diary? Is she telling a close friend, a daughter, a lover, a shrink? Is she speaking to a group? Let me know what you think the answer could be and also what you think of the piece.