MY STAGE

Everyone knows the "stage",
the playhouse where we all
go to see the players run
free. The biggest shots of
all come to see the players
on the stage act as easy as
one-two-three.

That's me up there so high
so mighty so free, that's
me that's me that's I, oh,
so high in that cloudless
blue blue sky; that's me,
that's I, that's

Dorothy Kaplan, the poor
girl from Gary, Indiana,
from the steel mills, from
the sand hills from the poor
hills from the hell holes
from the cellars from the
chill.

That's her, that's Dot.
Look as you will up there
on that stage--she's high--
she's safe on that stage.
No one now can get her, no
now will ever know how low
just how low that Dorothy
used to be.

An actress now safe on that
stage, an actress now and
oh how brave; so safe so
very safe high oh so high upon
that stage!

Bernie Bernstein
Niles, Ill.