“Conversation After the Movie Ends”

(Continuation of the Asphalt Jungle)

from a movie based on a story by W. R. Burnett

A Poem Play

in one act

by 

Rene’ Joseph

Preface:

Though I cry openly and in my heart for the ones that were lost in New York this September 2001, I celebrate and honor the heroic deeds of both the dead and the living.

This one act play came to me in my dreams, as I awoke.  It represents how I have worked through many emotions of grief in response to the hijackings and its aftermath.  This sweet dream is a welcomed relief from the other constant dream that haunts me as I get up every other morning—waking to the scenes of war.  The play is an allegory for the healing that must take place as we attempt to cope with the unthinkable.  I do not consider myself religious nor am I an atheist.  As an artist, I am a conduit for the energy I find out there.  It is channeled through me.  No credit can be taken for it other than as faithful recorder of the imagination.  I offer it as solace to others in their time of need and as a remembrance as we enter into a brave new world.   --Rene’ Joseph, September 16, 2001

Fortune Cookie message received on September 20, 2001--the day I posted this play on the web..