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I’m doing research for a ghost story to take place in Savannah, Georgia. In the past or in the present? Maybe both? I don’t know yet. I’m still stumbling in the dark, banging into trees that leap out at me, dragging my booted feet through the muddle, swearing at myself for ever venturing into this murky world of fiction. I don’t write short stories. I’m a playwright. But I’m not having great success beginning my next play, either. So, what the Hell… I do know the plot will revolve around the African American and Jewish communities of that southern American city. I’m writing an email to the rabbi of Mickve Israel, Robert Haas, whose blog I came across while looking for his address. I am re-posting it here to thank the Rabbi and the other religious leaders of Savannah for their humanity and honorable solidarity as they make clear they […]
Old Devil Time, you soften our pain and bless us with forgetfulness. The horrors we’ve been party to are finding firm footing in denial. Now that most of those victims are dead, We’re free. Follow the fruit-faced fascist. Ahead lies blessed darkfulness. Old Devil Time, you’re a svelte con-man, convincing us we don’t need to know history. In fact we don’t need to know anything, neither math nor science. We have the Committee for Lies and License Exchanging knowledge with alternate reality; conjoining truth with ignorance and mystery. Old Devil Time, we aren’t all the fools you would have us be. Some of us remember. This go-round, no disappearing our neighbors into train cars and horse stalls. No matter how long and high the wall, We, with pink hats, cardboard signs, respect for life, not merely birth, but life. We remember. Old Devil Fear, we aren’t afraid […]
