Poet's Theater: The Need for Roots

After pofest and general gentrification

Jun 02, 2025

∙ Paid

fire burning on the road with high rise buildings during daytime photography

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Scene 1 - 10 Lines of dialogue. An episode of local color.

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New library. Freshly built. In elevator—one side is a glass overlook.

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1: Going up?
2: Going down.
1: Going up now. Look at the beach. 
2: Getting blue. Getting bluer.
1: They bulldozed the sand for this building.
2: Getting bluer.
1: Four floors of books. Two bathrooms. Basement study rooms.
2: Getting bluer.

Elevator stops. Enter 3.

3: Going down?

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