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This is Love
To write one's own name on a death warrant to save another's life, To cherish the laughter and satisfaction of another above one's own, To seek a lost letter in order to read the other's hand once more, To endure the screams of infancy, the tantrums of childhood, and the insults of adolescence, This is love.
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38 deviations
Literature
Mnemonic Devices of the Soul
(Lights up on a spartan kitchen. MAN and WOMAN stand on opposite sides of a counter island. MAN is facing WOMAN, but WOMAN is facing away from MAN.) MAN Is today the only time you've done this? Can you tell me at least that much--do you have at least that much decency? (pause) Do you not remember how many times? Is that why you hesitate to answer? (pause) I'm not asking for a catalog or a minute-by-minute rundown, but I need more information. Why is it so hard? Is it shame? Is it fear? I promise: I won't hurt you. (pause) Listen, lots of people have been in our galoshes before. It doesn't mean we throw them in the dustbin and go shoe-shopping the next day. There are cobblers and therapists that can help us get our soles back in place. Or our souls back in place. (pause) Souls? Soles? Are our souls located above or below our soles? I can never remember the mnemonic device my anatomy professor taught us for the orientational relationship between the sole and the soul. (pause)
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22 deviations
Literature
Sparks
Neon orange confetti Gravitationally ignorant Buoyed skyward, smoke and all
Poems
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Literature
Mnemonic Devices of the Soul
(Lights up on a spartan kitchen. MAN and WOMAN stand on opposite sides of a counter island. MAN is facing WOMAN, but WOMAN is facing away from MAN.) MAN Is today the only time you've done this? Can you tell me at least that much--do you have at least that much decency? (pause) Do you not remember how many times? Is that why you hesitate to answer? (pause) I'm not asking for a catalog or a minute-by-minute rundown, but I need more information. Why is it so hard? Is it shame? Is it fear? I promise: I won't hurt you. (pause) Listen, lots of people have been in our galoshes before. It doesn't mean we throw them in the dustbin and go shoe-shopping the next day. There are cobblers and therapists that can help us get our soles back in place. Or our souls back in place. (pause) Souls? Soles? Are our souls located above or below our soles? I can never remember the mnemonic device my anatomy professor taught us for the orientational relationship between the sole and the soul. (pause)
MAN+WOMAN
12 deviations
Literature
Sparks
Neon orange confetti Gravitationally ignorant Buoyed skyward, smoke and all
50 Words
12 deviations
Literature
Lawn
Grass grows.
Mower mows.
Rain.
Repeat.
6 Words
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Literature
SHE
(Lights up on a long-abandoned library--more books on the floor than on the shelves, the only visible source of light coming through some cracks and edges of a boarded-up window. A generous layer of dust coating the surface of everything serves to highlight the eerie stillness of the room. But, then, SHE enters--an indomitable figure of a woman with a flurry of gem-colored feathers and sparkles fluttering in her wake. On the back wall of the library, a word is projected: "WHO?")SHE
I have a riddle. I really do have it. You might even find its answer, but you might not. I might tell this riddle, or I might not. Whether I choose to share with y
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Visual Art
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Literature
Over It
(A character stands in a chapel and begins to speak.)
CHARACTER 1
I don’t remember my dreams from around that time. I don’t remember dreaming of my father being alive and then waking up to him being gone. I don’t remember dreaming of him being dead, or of him dying—the memories just aren’t there, one way or the other. (beat) Dead quiet. The quiet of the nights, I remember. Maybe that’s a good thing.
(Another character enters.)
CHARACTER 2
Let’s get him done and buried already. This nonsense with the dreams is just that—nonsense! It doesn’t mean anything. He’s gone, he’s gone
Scraps
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