Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 17:36:44 -0700 From: "Rodney D. Coates" Subject: Re: INT: Writers Party - The Arrival Tom Sawyer wrote: > >Phanny squints into the sun at the distant cruise ship. "Look! I bet > >summa the writers are on that ship." > > > >The pigtail macaque blinks large soulful eyes at her and hops slowly > >around in the sand. Phanny takes the critter's hand and continues, "You > >know, writers come and go in the oddest ways around here..... I expect > >you'll get to see Bugs Bunny even! Let's go check the transporter again > >and see if anyone has materialized yet." > > > >Off they go, the monkey skipping up and down, trying to swing like a kid, > >toward the cluster of thatch/woven roofed bungalows. Phanny picks a large > >red flower and puts it in her hair. The blue, water-printed pareo around > >her waist sways, the tiny figures in the gauzy cloth seeming to dance. > >She wears nothing above the waist but the phlower, but decides she should > >go put on the coconuts-and-twine for arriving guests. > > > >Every bungalow has fresh flowers on the table on a small deck. Inside are > >laptops for each guest, as many will be writing while they vacation and > >party here. > > Tom adds: > > As Phanny saunters down toward the bungalows, hips undulating gently > to the soft magical sound of a steel drum band playing in the grassy > area between the bungalows, the evening sun highlights the red flower in her > wet hair. Fresh from a sensual swim in the bay, Phanny has tied her hair > behind her with a small band of grape vines and the wet strands trail > down her back and over her shoulders. Small rivulets of water from the strands > trickle over her body, cooling her in the sun as she walks. > She is in her element here, Phanny, Queen of Everything. She has the event > well organized and she smiles at the thought of all the creative, crazy writers > who will be gathering soon. She smiles as she wonders which of the many > subscribers to Writers will show up at this First Annual Clothing Optional > Writers-L Gathering. How many will be brave enough to show up. > > Surely Izzy will. Iz wouldn't miss this for the world. How about CathyB? > Ummm, she may have baby-sitting problems. Certainly Judy Ray will be here. > Hard to imaging her passing up the chance for all the Writers to see her > red hair. And speaking of red hair, Phanny knows Tom will come to the > gathering. He may be a sorry writer, but he's a world class exhibitionist! > > Rounding the corner of the bungalows, Phanny hears the high-pitched, yet > low-resonance hum of the transporter. Who will it be? and rodneyc...moans... and there in the darkness of the screen..the words of the unknown voyager streak across the screen. Weariness struggles into view as the voyager seeks to be heard, read, or at least acknowledged. She writes incessantly of the pain she has fealt, the paths she has traveled, and the tears she has shed. Lonliness is her companion, sorrow is her remnant, and silence is her punishment for choosing to be one with the universe. The drum beats, phanny sleeps, another voyager's vision placed into words streaks across the screen. Happiness wrestles with youth, as the voyager strives to contain his extasy in meager lines of praise for a new love, a new life and a new beginning. Silent sentiniels, watching over the shoulder of the witness, as still another voyager makes the scene. She, bearing the cup of the rainbow, sips the love of tomorrow. Her words captures the fragrance of youth and the eternal challenge of the ages, as she prepares to dawn this new day with a new poem. And again the screen blanks, another voice is trying to be heard. Who will it be.. -- umoja (unity through love, peace, understanding and respect) "Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes." -- African Proverb "Without struggle there is no progress." --Frederick Douglass "The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." --Steven Biko yours in the struggle, Rodney D. Coates, Ph.D. Director of Black World Studies - Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University - Oxford, Ohio 45056 Phone: 513-529-1235 e-mail: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu http://www.ilhawaii.net:80/~premaq/Coates/01-home.html