Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

i write it and my father, grandfather, and son have all come to speak in various characters
disasters of our family
have been turned into entertainment
family of origin issues cross from my gender

to a sexuality that has been observed, objectified for several generations, bought and sold
gold and silver
garments strewn on marble floors
make up and props
made into a hollywood visual
so that somehow i will understand
i resist looking, seeing, writing it
my fingers and body
heat up and sweat and i cannot stop or i avoid it
my friend s call me on cell phone
trying to get me to be social
eat pizza and laugh
but i cant
this thing has gone on long enough
it s like the endless sleepover
and all my kids are in the living room throwing popcorn
but all the kids are me, my father, my son, my granfather
my grandmother- all of them cheering me on
tell our story
they love to be honor like this
i love to do it
yet sometimes this obsession
feels like a house guest that has stayed too long
irritated but polite
oh sure i would love to
ok
i surrender to the second act plot the failure of the anatagonist, and the hero
not to get lost
wound up like a movie
melting like history
senseless with money
beauty
and powerlessness
struggle for caveman gestures
and action
i beg for answers to the generations of surrvivalists
the indian
the cowboy
the alcoholic
the children
marriages and divorses
all of you wanting to be noticed in 90 minutes
i hope that you like it
i have tried to include you all with love

Well I really dig it.
And I feel included without really being included.
Part of why I dig it so much.
Like when you know someone without really knowing them.....

Your family is lucky, the way you honor them, so real and alive in your writing, in it's energy.
And I'm lucky too, because you're posting it here and I get to read it!

Great read Creative Soul....as always.
thanks fer posting it...
H

Yea I like it too, I really dig the way you say so much more with your words than a surface glance would reveal. A depth and a richness of emotions surround your words adn I would love to read the screenplay. "C"