Meanwhile on the Set

A Work in Progress
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Meanwhile

On the set 

two unemployed rarely loquacious

unable to improv 

poets

discussing possibilities

Director Glenn Hughes joined them

with the script

we can teach children grammar

said Donal who had just learned Latin grammar 

then they will know how to parse time

not grammar but business

grammar can take care of itself

said Ezra    

we live like dogs

only for the moment

savoring odors wafting from the kitchen

flavors sipped from a glass

colors shining in sunlight 

as we bottle our wines

that’s not in the script said peachie

from afar sitting on the edge of dark matter

watching time pass by

who wrote this script they asked looking at Glenn

we’ll write it together he said

we’ll parallel modern times 

with one foot in the future

we’ll straddle the present 

with one foot in the past

we’ll ride across daylight not stopping for night

for everything’s global there is always light

we’ll be prime time no matter where

our chariot will dare to circle each day 

we won’t go high not close to the Sun

but we will have visibility on everyone

I’ve read Asimov’s The Martian Way

space travel beckons just not today

we’re in an age of discovery an atomic age

poets and playwrights must lead the way

Dick Russell © Richard M Russell

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