the forgotten monologue

Solo voice

Duration: 5 minutes

Language: English

RELATED:  #Serious  #Womxn  #Political  #Remembrance  #Nature  #Aleatoric

Content warning: miscarriage, loss

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Excerpt of Text:

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I was there in the room.
feet on the cold metal stirrups.

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I am there in the room.
Typing this forgotten monologue.

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I am here in the room.
I am, therefore, I am.

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Nature does not know extinction;
it only knows transformation.

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-Alyssa Ketterer Marshall

 Commissioned by Alexandra Porter, soprano, and the

Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project, USA, 2018

the forgotten monologue, performed by Alexandra Porter (soprano), 2018. New Jersey, USA