Tongues
An excerpt of a play by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin. Heard it today and rather liked it.
A voice
A voice comes.
A voice speaks.
A voice he’s never heard.
You are entirely dead.
What is unfinished is forever unfinished.
What has happened has happened.
You are entirely gone from the people.
In a second he mouns for himself.
For his whole life he mourns.
In the next second hes entirely dead.
In a second he mourns for the others.
For all the others he mourns.
In the next second he’s entirely dead.
In a second he forgets.
All life with the people he forgets.
In the next second he leaves.
His whole body he leaves.
He leaves his whole body behind.
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