Legendary

I caught their act, three with the back and forth banter
Each taking whip-smart improv turns
Sometimes a jokester-provoker, then the straight man
Each becoming, lightning quick, the butt of a joke
Not even realizing it sometimes as fast as we
The worshippers put one and two together first
As if we somehow knew them better
Than they knew themselves perhaps

I remember so spirit-sinking the ‘fraud’ charge
A strange resonation with the nature of playing persona

The first died with a Bible in hand
Alone on a trail back into the green world
The next how sad so young of a heart attack
Leaving behind the last alone of the legendary trio