Previous: >>25480729https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25480729You have until Friday September 25th, 11:59 PM GMT to fill one /lit/-sized textbox (3,000 characters) with writing inspired by this piece of public-domain art.Poetry, prose, greentext, etc. are all fair play as long as your submission—and that’s “your submission” (no plagiarism; no AI)—fits inside a single textbox posted in this thread.After the deadline has passed, I shall choose the best 3.An open vote will take place as well, so that everyone can have a say on placements.>[Countdown to submission deadline]https://countingdownto.com/w4/display/event-name-cjfeArt: “Teatterissa” (In the Theatre) by Ellen Thesleff, 1903https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In_the_Theatre_Ellen_Thesleff_1903.webp
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I see him. There he is, sitting. The architect guilty of butchering an entire American civilization, indeed, the only American civilization worthy of the name in the last unhappy decades of this nation, now massacred and swept away. Man must convince himself his crimes are just! That they are a necessary evil! Well! I must act now to fire with righteous fury a voluntary benevolence. It doesn't spawn from me. It lurches forward from a collective will, beseeched by unavenged American blood. My land of cavaliers and cotton fields and knights and ladies fair and master and slave has been slaughtered, and the guilt-laden criminal sits here. And to think his name is Abraham! Rather than a father of many nations, you, vile creature, are the murderer of the noblest nation that has graced this unhappy and fallen world. A civilization gone like a hushed match-fire. Nothing can be done now. There is no redemption, there is no restoration, there is no restitution of our old order and the only thing that remains is the undying fire agonizing inside my recusant heart that refuses to be swept away like dust. I rather be ashes than your slave. Die!
>>25539458>>25540534>>25541419these are all terrible
Respectfully, stop posting such uninspiring, dull art and instead post something more interesting.
THEATREGOER #1: Lincoln was shot in a place like this.THEATREGOER #2: Yes. Though he was in a booth so it's a bit different.THEATREGOER #1: You mean by a Booth.THEATREGOER #2: That too.THEATREGOER #1: It's still the same. We're up the top -- we're in the top bit.THEATREGOER #2: It's not the same at all.THEATREGOER #1: Yes it is. We're up the top.THEATREGOER #2: It's not... [sighs]THEATREGOER #1: And what about this bloke behind us?THEATREGOER #2: ...Look: you're not the president of the United fucken States. Nobody's gonna shoot you. Nobody gives a shit who you are. Just shut up and watch the fucken play.MAN STANDING AT THE BACK: [pulls out a gun]
>>25538506sullen candle hit the shoreI gaze upon the depth it gavea silent spectacle of masks wearing faces surrounding my becomingwhile I warm myself beneath the glowing cheek of a child suddenlywondering wether its me dancing in the abyss or watching from above
Fast approachingThe first act’s climaxThreads deceptively tangledAnd surely thereafter to be revealedAn intricate knit pulled taughtAs performers emoteAnd audience gaspAt betrayalDemiseRevealOff to your rightThe vacancy shoutsFar over the audience zealAnd you find that your mind isElsewhere
