Little Play #2 (November 21st, 2005)

A struggle for everyone to join.

Pressure point 126.4... a lack of time... otherwise known as: a due date.

I work so much better when a wall is coming at me in the distance.

As it draws nearer I tend to get my best ideas.

Little by little I am able to chip away at this wall.

Eventually I find a way to dissolve the mortar and make its foundations shatter.

As it approaches me, I see it is no more than a pile of rubble.

Sometimes, however, I cannot find the solution.

Alternatives are key.

The construction of a door is useful; 
when the wall draws near I am able to step through unscathed.

But the wall is still there.

That means I must work extra hard to topple it 
because another one has appeared in the distance.

Trapped by two walls.
If I do not bring them down, I will eventually be trapped.

Sometimes the pressure is there.

Sometimes it's all in my head.

Always there is a solution.

stumbled upon an old blog of mine...

...and, mostly, it's a collection of inane sputterings that act as a rather complex slice of life as I traversed the second and third year terrain at York trying to figure out who I am (something, I realise, is never-ending). But the thing that caught my attention is buried between posts I have unconsciously created a few "little plays," or online performances. I`m going to try and find them all and repost them to see how they stand independently.

From November 15th, 2005:

Little Play #1:

Turning a man into a woman has never been so easy!

Attention!

I hear groups of friends in other rooms, laughing and having a good time.

The smell of popcorn fills my nose.

And I wonder 'how the hell do they have time for this?'

And then I think, what if I just said 'fuck it'... what would happen?

It feels good to say it in my head...

but then I think about how it would translate in reality...

My hands are all wrinkled and rough.

I've found a release in... doing the dishes?

Yeah, you heard me.

Left! Left!

I think I'm going to need glasses after this week...

redundancy is key... redundancy is key... redundancy is key... redundancy is...

...what if?