Title: Rose's Turn
Fandom: Gypsy (musical)
Length: 32 words
Rating: G
Characters: Rose
Content notes: no warnings apply
Summary: It's time for the big finish



All of them leave you.
Your Mama. Your husbands. June.
Herbie. Miss Gypsy Rose Lee.

Alone on the stage,
take your place in the spotlight
and strip right down to your soul.


Technical note: The website Shadow Poetry defines sedoka as "an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.
A katauta is an unrhymed three-line poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/7."

There are lots of recordings of Rose's Turn on YouTube, including the original one by Ethel Merman and the most recent London version with Imelda Staunton.