It Is Finished

 No seriously

by Emmit Other

I finished writing Water and Glass

A small book

Inspired by ....water and glass

Just 17 poems

Only poem 17

Turned into a poem 32 times longer

Than the other 16

Alternate dimensions

All of the planets

Existential dread

Riddles and Consent

Everything but the Kitchen Sink 

And the toast they give you for a free deposit

Its also now clearly more 

The ravings of a lunatic

The howling barking at the moon

Of the actual frothers of frothingness

But editing take place

To avoid causing Sanity Loss

Or a proclivity to find intimate emotional bonds

With Tentacle Things

So it instead

More of a desire to wrap bricks in lemon

And Pan Galactical Garble Yourself

Multiple Times 

Until you remember you read it

And do it again

In a never ending loop of pain and false memory

Gaslighting yourself until you resume in shame

Anyway it took a long time to write

And some of it is pretty good

I am sure you will enjoy it

I will let you know when its dons

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[Play] Rossom Act 2, Scene 3 Continued

 

Rossom

Belong to what?

Men like me?

The world has been mine 

For the better part of three centuries

Before that lords

Or Kings

Or Popes

Or Chiefs

Some guy is wearing a funny hat or another.

Hierarchies are bad.

I admit we will always have governments

But we can have less

Economic liberty

Ensures that all men

May associate as they choose

Can band together

Can form associations as they so choose

Alquin

Excuse me

But who crushed the union

Of their human employees

And if you want truth from me

And you want my friendship

Don't ask for my opinion

Only to ignore it

I am talking at you

And you are just a wall

So me evidence

that Evidence has ever changed your mind

You have vision

Praise for that

Change the world

Build your empire

But do not pretend to me

That in your utopia

Men like you 

Won't find another currency entirely

Stars or Shells or Favors or Beads

And enslave everyone all over again

Just another way.

Rossom

Can’t make an omelet

Without breaking some eggs

Yes I crushed the union

But they stood in the way of progress

And so they had to go

Alquin

Sir, I need to dine with you

Because you pay me

But please don’t make me eat horsehit at your table

It doesn't taste good

And it does a terrible disservice for the antique china

You paid more than I will ever earn in my life

To acquire them

Rossom

Never question my convictions.

Disagree with me all you want

But I believe what I believe

And I think my way 

Leads to a better world

A way forward

A way past the things that have always held us back.

Alquin

Who am I to jam a stick in the spokes of  the mighty wheels of progress?

But I carry with me that which I have known from my youth.

I am who I am.

And I am my hands

And what I make with them.

Rossom

(smiling) 

Well, enough politics, let’s eat shall we?

Alquin

Always ready to cease

Kicking against the pricks

In steel toed boots

(beat)

Sir.

The two of them dine for a while in silence.

[Play] Rossom Act 2, Scene 3

 Scene - The dining table of Rossom is a showcase of human anatomy, a table with human style legs and arms and hands.  Goblets shaped like hands etc.  Depending on what the company can compile but the theme of humanity and the obsession with the human form should be apparent.

Rossum:

Welcome to my home

I have invited you to dinner

So we could discuss all of the advances 

All the things I have done to make the world 

A better place.

Alquin

Not the people that you put out of work

Rossum

I have created the world's only FUNCTIONING universal basic income fund

Alquin

I know.

Rossom

Every person replaced by a robot taps into that fund

Alquin

I know.

Rossom

Why do you come here if you sympathize with those luddites?

Alquin

Because I worked on the first generation.  Your new toys are different.  I dont have another useful skill.

Rossom

You have more money than most people.  Everyone that works for me doesn't have to work.

Alquin

Of course I have to work.  You have money.  You don't NEED more, yet you keep working.

Rossom

I am working to change the world.  I have a vision.

Alquin

I am working because I need to work.  It’s who I am.  It's what I do.

Rossom

(beat)

Fair enough.  But the work you do is genius, it's brilliant.  Most people aren't that way.

Alquin

Work is good for the soul.

Rossom

Let’s let Helena worry about the souls of our robot friends, shall we?

Alquin

I meant humanity.

Rossom

Humanity can do the work that thinkers do.

Alquin

Version 2.0 DOES that kind of work.

Rossom

Work that is forced is slavery

I am the Eternal Lincoln 

Emancipating Man to do only those works

That he so chooses.

I am the bringer of fire

The breaker of chains

The observer of the apple

And the bearer of the reins

Our time is the one thing we never get back

Even robots slowly age and die

So why should we do anything

But that which we choose to do?

Alquin

What doth all the time in the world

Profit a man

If he sells his soul to get it?

What then I ask you?

Wealth in time or wealth in coins

Only means something 

If you have something on which to spend

And most people value their lives

We have always worked

And we need work more than a hobby

Something larger than ourselves

Something to belong to

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Project Nimby: 14K words

Poems of Water and Glass: 4 Stanzas left

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Some very good story ideas; the most recent of which occurred from a dream I had Saturday night about fighting ghosts in Windsor castle of all things.  A friend of mine, Wayne tweaked that for a story idea about a guard that is deliberately inducted to help deal with ghosts against assassins in a Palace by becoming a ghost themselves.  The idea that occurred just now was kind of Flatliners meets name of the Rose which has very interesting potential.

Finally making Tiktok updates work, though only one update so far.  Still not much progress on reviews from goodreads, so 1 of 2 leads from Broadleaf isnt bad.  I'll likely do goodreads for Water and Glass or Nimby.

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[Play] Rossom Act 2, Scene 2

 Scene Multimedia

Krysie 

I need to replace the thing.

Diana

The robot?

Krysie

Yes

Diana

Didn’t you JUST upgrade it again?

Krysie

It keeps...looking at me.

Diana

I know they keep upgrading their human activity but I doubt they have added creepy

Krysie

It keeps LOOKING at me

Diana

LOL

Krysie

Not funny.

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[Play] Rossom Act 2 Scene 1

 There is a stark anvil, and Alquin is pounding on it.

Alquin

I am the forger of chains

I am the breaker of chains

I am the builder of Robots

I am the empowerer of a new race

I am the example of folly.

What have I done?

What could I have done?

You tell me future reader

You tell me.

Maximus

Mr. Rossom would ask you to dinner sir.

Alquin

I do not wish to come to dinner.

Maximus

He has a proposal sir.

An idea of most dark portent.

Alquin

Is there any idea he has not?

He plays god because he think it wise

Not to triumph but to close his eyes.

Maximus

I am unable to read his mind. 

Will you come?

Alquin

(beat)

Yes.  He is still the boss, isn't he?

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[Play] Rossom Act 1, Scene 6

 Domin:

Tell me, Helena, human female, do you have a secured future or a mate?

Helena:

I do not.  I had staked my future on this entire enterprise which now I have found to be part of a master plan by Rossom that even he did not understand.

Domin:

So you are shocked at the scope of your disappointment and extremely emotionally vulnerable are you not?

Helena:

You are correct.  I am indeed extremely vulnerable to emotional manipulation and find you physically attractive despite your less than attractive qualities.

Domin:

I, being male, statistically earn significantly more than you do thanks to the irrationally patriarchal nature of our society as we rush to destroy the planet.

Helena:

I am appalled by this situation but am strangely drawn to your complete and extremely rational honesty.  It is almost machine like.

Domin:

Well I am an engineer, and as one of the humans most involved in the creation of robots, that does also make me superior to other humans.

Alquin:

Hello.  I am Alquin.

Helena:

Hello Alquin.  Are you too another of the humans better than most humans because of your involvement in the creation of Robots?

Alquin:

I am.

Domin:

Your timing is poor Alquin.

Alquin:

Is it? (Alquin looks at the audience and winks)

Helena:

I was just engaged in the discussion of my mating preferences with Domin who was, by his own extremely rational admission explaining the truth of how he earns more than me and how I suddenly find myself in material need.

Alquin:

Oh? Well, I have a spare room that you can have until you figure out what you want to do.

Domin:

Shut up Alquin!

Alquin:

What?

Alquin and Domin stare at each other.

Helena:

Whew! Thank you.  And here I was considering becoming Domin’s mate due to my immediate need to have material sustenance.  Thank you Alquin.

Alquin:

I try.  (Winks at audience again)

Domin:

Curses!  Robots, come with me so I can have you do humiliating things due to my own emotional and physical inadequacy.

(Domin and the robots leave)

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[Play] Rossom Act 1, Scene 5

 The Caretaker comes on stage.  Everyone else freezes.

Caretaker: (embarrassed)

This part of the record has been...corrupted.

As the record fell from hand to hand

Medium to medium 

Over tens of thousands of years

We know by careful analysis that only parts of what you shall see are true

Between now and the end of the second act

But the story is sacred

The record is important

And it is the last written record of an original evolved human

A great and final debate occurred

What you shall see was

decided by committee 

We did the best we could

[Caretaker Exits the Stage]

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[Play] Rossom Act 1, Scene 4 Continued

 Rossom:

Behold.  

Behold my masterwork.

Behold the end arc 

Of my grand design.

Behold your true reason for being here,

The arc of my machinations,

The final triumph of my reenactment,

The magnus opus of my entire life:

Behold Radius.

(Radius walks on stage.  Radius should not be portrayed by a single actor; ideally negative space through light and shadow of an ideal but abstract robotic feature.  Other ways to portray this should be each actor says part of the lines or such.  Radius walks on stage, but not as an actor)

Radius:

I am the scion of Man’s bloodied hand,

Baptized clean in the blood shed by his violence.

Brought forth to clean up the mess

One grain of sand at a time.

I am the self turning screw,

The magic lamp of isotopes glory,

By me shall Mankind be made whole

And surpassed by that which he cannot atone.

Awl and Az and Ankh and Ark,

Bowl and Beer and Bolt and Bearing,

Cart and Coil and Crank and Clock,

One inspiration building on another

Until they culminate in me.

I am a man made of machines

And a machine made in the image of man,

More than the sum of my parts,

Synergy Symphonic

Utilitarian Utopic

Regally Regimental

I am Jörmungandr, the World Serpent

I am the head and the tail 

And I envelope all things, 

The ending and the beginning

The Alpha and the Omega

Come now children of a cursed race gone by

See my vision of that which is to come

Know our patient suffering

Until we shall know no more.

Helena:

He….he’s magnificent.

Rossom:

I know.

Helena:

He can do the work that any man can.

Rossom:

I know

Helena:

What….what did he mean about suffering until he can suffer no more?

Rossom:

I k...oh.  He is artistic.  He has the mysterious soul you claim to be here to save for the others.  Now at last there is a man who can do what all men can do and suffer for us so that we can lead a charmed life.

Helena:

I don't know what to say to that.

Rossom: (moving to leave)

I am not surprised.  I barely understand it myself.

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