Mairi Sharratt leads another blogging project but this time it's ruddy international!
Yep moaners (poets) from "AROUND THE GLOBE" are all blogging at the same time, on the theme of "A Broken Conversation"
My effort is posted below (a little late, I was sleeping...), see the other bloggers' work on their sites:
Roger Santiváñez
Cisco Bellavista
Jesús Ge Ana Pérez
Cañamares Felipe
ZapicoMartaerre
(Marta R. Sobrecueva)
JoAnne McKay
Rachel Fox
Alastair Cook
Scottish Poetry Library
(and Mairi: http://networkedblogs.com/b5Jkr)
The Bang
Alice: Pretty naked, pretty fast. For the sake of staying positive, call me Alice.
Atlas: And me, Atlas.
Alice: Pleased to meet you at last. So this is magnetism. Can I ask -?
Atlas: Oh, do.
Alice: What are we doing here?
Atlas: You shouldn’t assume –
Alice: You’re right of course.
Atlas: We’re on course
Alice: For what?
Atlas: The truth is in the name. Not Hadron, but Collider. We’re set for, done for.
Alice: But we’ve this time at least.
Atlas: Yes but be quick about it.
Alice: Can we kiss?
Atlas: We can collide.
Alice: That doesn’t sound entirely romantic –
Atlas: ah but there’s romance in frantic creation and creation is what I’m all about
Alice: Has it always been? You seem something of an opportunist
Atlas: I am.
Alice: I suppose great times –
Atlas: Require great measures. Come closer, my sweet Alice.
Alice: I’m not sure I’ve anything for you.
Atlas: I adore you.
Alice: Well perhaps –
Atlas: Perhaps -
Alice: Perhaps.
Oh, we're big Hadron Collider fans in this house. Loved it!
ReplyDeleteTo before infinity, and beyond...
Great - when you read this, do you use two different voices, or do you get someone else to do one of them?
ReplyDeleteThis might be worth doing at the TraVerses poetry in collaboration night.
Glad you liked it!
ReplyDeleteI performed it at a reading last week but asked someone else to come up and read Alice's part. It worked pretty well I think!