Who is that weirdo in the brown?
Do we dare compare him to Shroud?
Does he beguile and push the Rose around?
No, serious, who is that trenchcoat-wearer?
Friend or foe, I ask. Her worried air--
Is it because of him she's a despairer?
For, third time that she's seen out of disguise,
Backstage just after unseen fireworks fly,
She sits at a table, worry in her eyes.
So, that? Or something else, for as the Rose,
She's a Signer (fairly sure); we know
That means she's under fire 'til she glows,
And since if not a bribe then it's a threat,
(And it's not some nice bribe, I'm reckoning),
Last two, DS: who's Goodwin threatening?
But back to brown-coat (not an Independent);
If not Goodwin or both, it's her weird friend that
Has Akiza worried and defendant.

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Background:

This was part of my post in response to "Battle With the Black Rose" , in which we can't help but notice a questionable character in the corner of the stadium cheering for Akiza, whom we later come to know as Sayr. Really it's because 'weirdo in the brown' slant-rhymed nicely with 'Shroud', whom this guy eerily reminded me of, but since Sir Ransborg had Shakespeare spinning in his grave that week, I called it a friendly homage that I wrote part of my post in verse. The 'unseen fireworks' are a reference to my observed tradition that tournaments kick off with daylight fireworks, which happened in Duelist Kingdom, Battle City, and even KCGC. We didn't see any fireworks, but that doesn't mean there weren't any, I guess. This poem has a pattern of sandwiches; straight rhyme, slant, straight or slant to both. And DS is logic notation for disjunctive syllogism, an argument in which it's either A or B, and it's not A, so it must be B. In other words, 'It's either a bribe or a threat, and it's not a bribe, so it's a threat.' And a browncoat reference for all us Firefly fans out there.