I, Mark of Senior Honors, to you

This is a short play I wrote. It was a research project on Charles Olsen.


Man 1: The People
Man 2: This is Polis
Man 1: The Body Politics
Man 2: This is Polis
Man 1: The Culture, the Place
Man 2: This is Polis
Man 1: Eyes
Man 2: This is Polis...Who Am I?
Man 1: Charles Olsen
Man 2: Where Am I?
Man 1: Here
Man 2: Where was I?
Man 1: There
Man 2: How did I get here?
Man 1: Istorin...Come Here
Man 2: No...You are going to slap me
Man 1: No I am not
Man 2: Ok
(Slap)
Man 1: Come Here
Man 2: No...You are going to slap me
Man 1: No I am not
Man 2: Ok
(Slap)
Man 1: What do you know?
Man 2: Pardon?
Man 1: What do you know?
Man 2: I know a house made of mud & wattles
Man 1: When?
Man 2: last week
Man 1: 300,000,000 years ago
Man 2: When
Man 1: The first human eyes to look again at the start of the human motion. (Just lastweek...300,000,000 years ago)
Man 2: This is place is fantastic...how much I love it
Man 1: ChangeOne Loves only formand form only comes into existence whenthe thing is born
Man 2: Kill those who advertise you out
Man 1: Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill those who advertise you out
Man 2: Kill
Man 1: Come Here
Man 2: No....you are going to slap me
Man 1: No I am not.
Man 2: ok
(Slaps)
Man 2: I love this place
Man 1: 300,000,000 Million years ago
Man 2: I loved this place 300,000,000 years ago...
Man 1: Come here
Man 2: No you are going to slap me
Man 1: No I am not.
Man 2. Ok.
(Slap)
Man 2: When will I learn?
Man 1: Istorin
Man 2: When will I learn?
Man 1: You will learn the simplest things last
Man 2: What?
Man 1: Come Here
Man 2: No...You are going to slap me
Man 1: No I am not
Man 2: Ok
(Slap)
Man 1: You will learn the simplest things last
Man 2: What?
Man 1: You will learn Worchester. You will learn theatre. You will learn poetry. You will learn Gloucester. You will learn Black Mountain College. You will learn history, anthropology, Robert Creely, power, advantage, liability. You will learn progress, you will learn regress, you will learn hate. You will learn Urban Renewal, tracks, trains. Call Me Ishmael, call me powerful, call me Moby Dick, call me comfortable, Call me Maximus, Call Me You, You is Ferrini, He is you, call me everything. I am greater than anyone you have ever known. You and I will learn water, you will learn Polis....And the fish.
Man 2: I understand
Man 1: And the fish
Man 2: I understand now
Man 1: And the fish...Come here
Man 2: No I understand now...you are going to slap me.
Man 1: No I won't
Man 2: No I know you will...
Man 1: persistence of place
Man 2: Polis is this
Man 1: Polis is fish
Man 2: Polis is here
Man 1: Polis is place
Man 2: Polis is culture
Man 1: Polis is eyes
Man 2: Polis is body politics, you, me, Charles, Kenny, Mark, Malden, Gloucester; Polish is 3 Million years ago, Polis is now.
Man 1: ...Polis is fish.