Footlights Slave
The ‘footlights’ slave, appropriately enough, has a footslave’s-eye view of the actors’ FEET and FOOTWEAR as they perform on the stage in front of him. That’s because his job is not to focus on the play, but on the actors’ FEET, as befits a footslave. A pretty actress extemporises directly in front of and above the footlights slave His role is to focus on her FEET and FOOTWEAR He must NOT focus on the actress's words or the play Only on her FEET! In this case, she is wearing BOOTS and SOCKS So he humbly and silently studies the underside of her BOOT The treads The scuffmarks The creases in the beige-brown leather The STITCHES in her white SOCKTOP Not forgetting, of course, her fellow actor's FEET The footlights slave must have regard for the master-sir's FOOTWEAR also For he too is the footslave's superior! Indeed, the footlights slave is not fit to even think about his betters above their FEET This is his lowly place - staring at the FEET of those above him The audie...