Below is a piece of abstract writing. This is an exercise from a mini seminar organized by a storytelling group I am in. The mini seminar was taught by an Jasmine from an organization in Chicago called The Neo-Futurist.
The art piece doesn’t necessarily have to be physically spoken by you but this is a rant and itbhas to be taught and the scene set up verbally. It isn’t long because we didn't have a lot of time with so many people on the zoom meeting.
In essence I squeezed out every little bit of rant I could in the time that I had all while being partially hungover from the night before.
Topic: Something I could rant about
Action: multi-tasking but starting a row for a crochet project
“Differences. What are our differences if we have never stepped out of our same? That is such a difficult question as sitting here listening to someone trying to box me in again. I like red and you like blue( I like red but this is just an example and not my favorite color). That is a difference. You thinking I am different because of the way I pronounce my Rs is not a difference, it’s a lack of exploration.
I am not too different from anyone else, just particular. Just particular in a way that I love for my towels to be folded in a particularly orderly way but also get lost in thought driving in a way that gives Georgia State Patrol a reason to love their job. I love their job too. I too wanna go fast…
Let me stay on topic, kind of.
I need my towels to be folded in a rectangle. You square my towels and I am prone to delve into madness. I don’t see you different than me. I just see someone or something new I hadn’t explored. That would mean explore me without putting me in a box based on perceived differences. Difference that seem to come because you saw someone else do it and I resemble that someone else because of any similarities you decided to box me into.
You don’t know me though.
We don’t have many differences. I’m tired of living like we do because of something someone else had to group together for you like a polynomial.
I mention polynomial because I am taking math and now understand the reason while writing this why you would need to factor a polynomial.”
Hopefully you listen to the audio - I think we need it.
Mookie Toujour💜
