Your Presence Slays the Beast

A note I ended up expanding further into six more stanzas.

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The very first
audience member 
to show up 
for your work 
is always faith
in your own talent.

The first clap
ransacking
and reverberating
hollow symposiums.

The first twinkle
within the amygdala
tickled by anticipation
of fanciful futures.

The first feast
for the duet
of black-holes
in the skull cavities.

All you.
…