Speaking in Code. for B, after your play “Welcome to the Moon” by John Patrick Shanley The good news is that we now have voices. How are you? I drove through the moon tonight. I’m fine. It was that low in the sky. How are you? A great big yellow ball buried in the blue part of the black- I’m okay. Tired. I’ve never been so tired. And I fell sort of in love with the sky right then. Go to sleep then. It only took an instant and I was smitten. I can’t go to sleep. And yet, as in love as I was, what left my body was just air, bear-like and strong. Go to sleep. But the good news is that we now have voices. I still have so much to do though. Had I not been alone in my car driving toward the moon that quiet air would have a voice. You’ve done enough. Beauty, unremitting like this, so hard to come by- It’s never enough. There is so much more to do. And yet it is everywhere, this beauty. You can rest now. The voice would say things if it could, the voice trapped in the car, the voice headed for the moon. Okay. Good night, you. On the way to your play the moon was close enough to the earth, I had to- Wait, don’t go yet. Listen to my voice: I had to enter the moon. I’m listening. It was the first time in my life I have seen a moon so full, so close to me. You make my heart hurt. What I had to go through to get to you- What does that mean, I make your heart hurt? So attainable, I had to take it, that moon, there on the way to your play. It means: I love you. You can’t ignore something so beautiful. Did you happen to see the moon tonight? I finally found my voice there on the moon, that’s the good news. Yes, yes. I saw the moon tonight. It was so low in the sky I almost drove right through it. You shone up there tonight on that stage, everyone had to stop and remember to breathe. The moon was so beautiful tonight it made my heart hurt. We all clapped and then remembered the good news: we have voices now. It means: I love you. We can stop gesturing, we can speak now of what you are, of what we saw up there. Welcome to the moon. j pastiloff Thank you for taking the time to read my writing. I will be adding more. If you would like to post a comment about my writing please send me an e-mail. Comments From My Readers |
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