Adam Bock
Seriocomic
LINDA, 20s
LINDA is a theology student, and in this direct audience address she describes how she feels when she goes into the “drunken city.”
LINDA I’ve been reading about Hinduism at school. The Hindus They think They think the whole world is alive That everything That every flower every bit of wood and rock and the floating clouds And even the water that a small golden fish swims through Everything is living and feeling And that night I believed them I could see the world that they I could see the city slowly opening its lazy dangerous eyes They The Hindus They use their breath to slow down the tumbling hurdy-gurdy of the world Slow it down so they can see the trees breathe, so they can fall in love with the wind, so they can That night I could hear it I could hear the cement under my feet muttering, I could hear the streetlights arguing with me, I could hear a devil and an angel struggling grabbing at each other, young and old and dead And I knew no one liked me and I knew and then I was dizzy and then I was fine.