Photo by Reha Paşa from Pexels A Red Train speeds down rails of memoryFrom Western Ridge, as far as mind can see.I’m yours, I was, I breathed a hundred timesAs bodies touched and sand became the floor. We’ll never part, and now the time is nighOur measured lives against the way we made.Could we have […]
Photo by Alexander Zvir from Pexels AT THE RISE Center stage: A jail cell. CROCK alone, sitting on the bed, writing in a notebook. CROCK To himself, as he writes: Goddammit.I wish they never found my lethal injection.How unfair of them. People are queer.Especially people who write.Most especially people who write bucket lists.On death row.
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Photo by Luis Leon from Pexels A theatrical adaptation of Linda Gregg’s poem, Asking for Directions Me like a mare let out to pasture.The Tao does not console me. – Linda Gregg, Chosen by the Lion, 1994. TIME AND PLACE 1994.Aboard a passenger train, the Lake Shore Limited, Manhattan to Chicago, just arriving at Chicago’s
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Photo by Charles Parker from Pexels A man’s life ain’t worth a hill of beans except he lives up to his own conscience. I’ve got to give Josh that chance.– Friendly Persuasion, 1956 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you,
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Photo by Yasir from Pexels Nothing happens in a vacuum …. – Khaled Hosseini TIME Time out of memory. PLACE Land of unseen giants. A second floor bedroom and window are atop a riser upstage. Beyond it is the hint of an ocean and a pea-green boat. CHARACTERS Many. SCENE 1 At rise in
