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Actor, writer and comedian, George J. MacDonald has been a working professional in the entertainment industry for a number of years. Stage plays that MacDonald has written include Waiting For Whitey, At The Funny Factory, In A Better Place and Whistling Past The Graveyard. Screenplays include Both Guns Blazing, Still In The Picture and The Spider Sequence. Some of his film credits are Monument Ave., Celtic Pride, Bluff and When Stand-up Stood Out. Television credits include MAD-TV, The Michael Richards Show and A&E’s Comedy On The Road. In 2005, George made his directorial debut with Why Work?, a sketch comedy show that played in The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. MacDonald is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity Association and The Dramatists Guild of America.

George J. MacDonald

Where the Nightbird Sings

In the darkness of the forest

Where the lonesome nightbird sings

Whispers there a blade before us

That the dogged phantom slings.

Churning forward at its own pace

With its own determined speed

Though you run your very best race

You will never keep the lead.

Marking time with sad distraction

And crass indulgence by the score

Never stops the grim-faced specter

Now heard scratching at your door.

Some may run and try to dodge it

As though it were a schoolyard game

But the creeping ebb of shadows

Always claims you just the same.

In that final frail surrender

At last meeting face-to-face

Slip away in sleep so tender

With its dark and cold embrace.

© 2018 by George J. MacDonald

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