SCENE 1 A darkened stage, then a chorus emerges, a multi-racial group of women in their 70’s and above, old feminist types--short hair, no makeup, no bras, lots of beads, flowy pants, some kente cloth on the black women. Maybe one is shirtless?(used to be a big thing at allwomyn festivals) They face the audience. CHORUS Here we stand, bent with age but strong of heart. We were born to change the world, we wanted to change the world, we did change the world, with magazines, with marches, with laws, with orgasms with vibrators with tennis matches with haircuts with coming out with poems with dance with laughter with festivals with music with haircuts with our bodies in the streets with our arms around each other We opened a door and the world fought us. We opened a door and the world came charging through.. We opened a door and the world ran over us, too quick to see, too quick for us to comprehend some times too quick to offer gratitude too quick to allow for thanks too quick to allow for grace to quick for us to change with it. And now we stand here bent with age but strong of heart as our bodies weaken, knowing we are ending the journey that so many are beginning even as the form of life that we are all a part of is so close to some great change some great change we will not live to see, some great change that goes beyond the human, even as it is caused by the human, even as it wrecks the human. Here we stand bent with age but strong of heart. Here we stand. The chorus fades back but FLO and GEORGIA step forward, holding hands. They turn away from the audience to hold each other’s hands and each other’s gaze. The chorus fades back and the lights come up to reveal a modest beach house--lots of art everywhere--large wooden sculptures and such. Silver dollars on shelves, faded, loved blue blankets draped over things--a place of warmth and affection. Georgia walks to the sofa and sits, picks up a hard copy of The New York Times. Flo walks to a counter and starts mixing drinks--some beachy thing.
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