Fallout
I wrote this at the start of the Iraq war (2003), and later made the short film. It’s been on my mind again during COVID-19 isolation.
a glimpse of the aftermath
Interior, three weeks later. Morning. Is A asleep on the couch? Does B enter with a bowl of cereal and a beer? Does B pour the beer on the cereal?
A: Uh…
B: Morning.
A: What’s the… uh…?
B: Roadrunner. Saturday. Nine o’clock.
A: Nine o’clock, Saturday?
B: Yeah.
A: I thought we had a, uh…
B: We did. Yeah.
A: Oh. So?
B: Nuclear fallout.
A: Oh. Right. Ok.
B: And we’re out of milk.
A: Oh.
I wrote this at the start of the Iraq war (2003), and later made the short film. It’s been on my mind again during COVID-19 isolation.
Sommer asked people to record themselves reading a poem from her collection, Backup Singers. I put together this video of the poem Alcohol affects the frontal cortex.
official music video by Gio Toninelo
My friend Maureen Maloney asked to document my reaction to the 2016 election, as part of the America Heard film series.
I wrote this at the start of the Iraq war (2003), and later made the short film. It’s been on my mind again during COVID-19 isolation.