JOHN OSBORNE'S DAY

Those passing in chatter
over private plays
gone public
as an involvement
preferable
to speak in acts
and torpid scenes
of resentment against
downing st. speeches
against the exorcised
capital and labour
sickness in London's
moment in post war
theater confronting fiction
from Georgian left overs
of mouthing sentences
with sterility in movement
those lines of consciousness
emerge with conviction.