The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/NORRIS: Difference between revisions

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{{byline|last=Culver|first=Bonnie|note=This excerpt is taken from a one-woman play based upon [[Norris Church Mailer]]’s memoir, ''A Ticket to the Circus''. The show is scheduled to premiere at The Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, CA in 2020, directed and produced by Michelle Danner and starring Anne Archer. The photos listed and all stage directions are placeholders for the final choices. As with any production, the director and actor will find the exact piece/time/place for her handling of any (if used) props or sets. The photos represent Norris’s memories, she never “sees” them as they are projected on a screen above the stage throughout the play.|url=}}

I wrote to Norman. Not a letter. A poem really. (''giving oratory!'')

“Ode to a First Encounter.” (''as aside'')

It was the seventies and I loved Rod Mckeun, (''reciting'')

In a pocket of sorrow

In a vacuum of space. (''pausing'')

I didn’t tell Norman this was a hand-me-down poem I wrote for a boy I was seeing along with some others when I met him. (''pausing'')

I’d look that person in the eye, “The last one!” I didn’t even knock wood. I knew. Well, most times believed it was true.

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