Actors are ....

.... Inclined To Pretend.

King Kong jumps from the bushes
behind the Hollywood swimming baths.
Johnny drops dead with fright straightaway.
“I’m sorry,” says Kong. “ I thought he’d laugh.”

Lassie and Lady lay down for the night.
After an hour, Lady gives a huge yell.
“You’re not a girl! You’re a boy!” Lady says in a state.
“Collies are hairy,” Lassie says. “It’s hard to tell.”

The Lone Ranger staggers from the barroom.
Silver says: “You’re drunk and I’ve had a long wait.”
She swallows him whole from his boots to his hat,
saying: “It’s been a while since I last ate.”

But the Lone Ranger had drunk so much whisky
that Silver feels sick: Up comes the hat.
After a while along comes Tonto, he says:
“Where’s Kemo-Sabe and how’d you get so suddenly fat?”

Lassie sits on the sidewalk with Kong and says:
“Lady’s pregnant: It’s either me or that Tramp.”
Tonto is arguing with Silver: He says:
“His hat was white: Not green, slimy and damp.”

The Lone Ranger’s absence remains a great mystery.
He’s never seen again in Hollywood’s West
where Kong and Lassie have retired together
and Tonto knows secrets he’s never confessed.

Of course only Silver knows the true story.
It was long ago but it’s never too late
to persuade other folk of the glory
of Horses who eat people and also talk and create.

Kong says: “Actors are bad at relationships.
We are mainly inclined to pretend.”
Lassie says: “You meant well: Don’t be hard on yourself.
Nothing’s over till the screen shows THE END.”