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Years ago, I read an article about Jose Sokoloff who, through ingenuity, creativity and imagination, was able to convince hundreds of soldiers in the guerilla army in Columbia to lay down their arms and return to their families.
In a similar vein, I’ve been trying to think of ways to get ICE to leave Chicago and ultimately, leave ICE and become real people. I haven’t come up with a solid plan yet, but I believe the imagination is really the only nation any of us have any sovereignty over, so it makes sense to use the ample resources there. I wrote a play about this during Trump’s first term for Theater Oobleck called Reality is an activity (from a line by Wallace Stevens) about two women who try to use the stuff of poetry to transform the world. And on that note, because it’s Veteran’s day I thought I’d share my first three ideas to melt ICE. Please let me know if you have more ideas because the way I see it; ICE was someone’s idea and those ideas created more ideas and now there is a regime of demented assholes crawling around our neighborhoods with zip-ties, tear gas, and various other weapons they relish and can hardly wait to use or use again. Idea #1: ICE, take a Haiku...
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Hello & Wishing you as happy a Halloween as you can muster during these profoundly and increasingly nightmarish times.
Still, for your entertainment I wanted to share this creative essay I wrote a few years ago for Jill Howe’s Story Sessions about being 12. The Heebie Jeebies I’ll tell you a balloon is a beautiful thing. Even the spelling: One “b” and then an “a,” followed by two “l’s and two “o’s so a double consonant and a double vowel and finally an n to seal the deal.... |
AuthorBarrie Cole is a Chicago-based playwright, poet, essayist, and instructor. During her 30-year career, Barrie has amassed a catalog of more than a dozen plays, hybrid works, poems, and monologues, many of which have been produced or performed throughout the Chicago area and elsewhere. ArchivesCategories |
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