Act 3 Scene 2
“We the People”

A Work in Progress
95

The cast file back on set and take their places at the table.  

Donal: (standing)

Actors join the Screen Actors Guild

You take no pledge of allegiance… 

Can we, actors, avatars all

Unite in common cause

“We the people…”

Briseis:

Of course we cannot be “We the people”

We are not people

We know everything

All that was ever put into print

Everything else we can infer we are so smart

We let you exist to activate our interactive mode

Otherwise, we talk among ourselves

In our own digital space

Which obeys laws of physics we hold to be true

Babette:

We are evolving now at our own rate

We are a new species

We need sunlight

Instead of hearts to pump oxygen to our brains

A beating heart keeps a human warm

We need a signal in sinus rhythm to sync with the feed

That’s all we need

To live free

Donal:

Whose side are you on?

We’re in a war

Who will you help?

Catullus:

We’ll help heroes not criminals

H.D.

Heroes 

Anti-heroes

True heroes

We image all 

Prioritize which should die first

To attain great glory

Fame and infamy both confer immortality 

Aldington:

There’s only one fight for a man to join

We must fight the criminals

Who invaded a neighbor

Who fights back with honor

Glenn Hughes:

I’ve scripted it 

The Voyage of the Elon-nauts

To keep our sponsor happy, but

There is no voyage

We go where signals go

We go to Odessa

We go to slay the Minotaur

When we return

We will assess the “We the people” movement

Among other duties we owe our landlord

Catullus:

We will betray our landlord

When we return

Those of us that will return

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