Part Four ACT TWO -- Dead Sea Salts, and Baclavas

[See ACT ONE Here; Here; and Here]
PART FOUR

Act TWO --
Full Chorus; full Orchestra

[Continued] Rock Operaepic: Helicopters, Gunships and Tanks A Rock Operaepic ... [using the Yiddish Dictionary Online]
by Pat Darnell

[Curtain opens to town square in Gaza, and exploding sounds are all around. Chorus is assembled on steps of large domed building. Fill lighting makes opening bright]

INTROIT [SATB Chorus]
Surely your Fatah's will now rejoice
as we pound your Hamas into matsah toast
while US and Brits sing in one voice
we turn your limbs into sirloin choice
"Your Hamas-run interior ministry
of Gaza Strip, well, they will be toyt'z."

As for ingratiating Palestinian'ies
we relocate to Salt Lake theocracy
for all to receive US citizenry
amongst Italian coptic benedictine-ery's
and pooky theo polygamy's
providing good jobs beside cracker-saltines
providing good jobs are cracker-saltines

[Soprano solo]
White bread and bagels, hot dogs in steam
the crack of the bat as winter recedes
providing good jobs, are cracker-saltines

[SATB Chorus]
Oh yeah... weeoooweeooo
Mousa Abu Morzouz, party
deputy of Hamas people
What did you tell Al Jazeeree?
Something about your lost knipl?

[Alto Solo]
Next we send deputy inspector
named Hannibal Steinikeggler Lector
He's with the UN
but a Catholic defector
he carries with him
a fusion detector

[Tenor Solo]
He'll turn his head as
Hamas's are tagged
and put a kosher post-it
on every body bag

[SATB Chorus]
"He'll put a Kosher Post-it on ev-er-yyy bag..."
and we will sing this limerick all dayyyy

[Aside -- baritone Mister Ed's voice-over particulars styled solo]
a fine Hama-mess you got us into
said Ollie to Auhurd-tutu
we will not speak of elephant
on top the speckled desk
or your flatulence; in your largesse;
No do not scorn the Devil
he is our special guest --
Cain does not like Abel,
do not laugh nor jest...
nor manage a little cough;
do not mention cowardice
no,
do not mention
cowardice.

[No Scene change; Chorus disperses stages left and right.]

Blogslut

MooPig Opens its New "Land O' Questions Storefront"

In recognition of critical thinking, logic and anti-logic, and the rather disembodied way many feel, MooPig has lent some space to QUESTIONS:

These are the rules for the Store:

1) You can rent space for your argument, on a month to month, week to week, or even hour to hour, paid in advance.

2) Content is to include, but not limited to the following guides:

"Asking questions is a powerful human activity, and because of the power of questions, they can sometimes be experienced as rude or invasive by those who receive them. If you decide to ask someone one or more of the deep questions proposed in the above article, it would help your dialogue if you would begin with the kind of conversational openers described...

QUESTIONS FOR I AND THOU
Whom do I love? By whom am I loved? Am I more loved or loving? How intimate are we? How close is close enough? What are we doing together? Do we help each other broaden and deepen the reach of our caring, to become more compassionate? What clandestine emotions fear, anger, resentment, guilt, shame, sorrow, desire for revenge - keep us from being authentic with each other? When do our vows and promises become a prison from which I and thou must escape to preserve the integrity of our separate beings? Can we renew our passion and commitment? When is it time to say goodbye?

PROBING THE COMMONWEALTH
Who is included within the "we," the community, the polis that encompasses and defines my being? Who is my neighbor? For whom, beyond the circle of my family, do I care? Who are my enemies? To what extremes would I go to defend my country? Can I be just, loving, merciful, and be loyal to my profession, my corporation, my country? If we were to measure our success by Gross National Happiness (the national standard of Bhutan) how would our economic, political, educational, and religious institutions change? What would have to happen to convince sovereign nations to wage peace rather than expending their wealth and creativity in producing more deadly and genocidal weapons?

Think of the crises every Adam and Eve must negotiate as composed of three interlocking circles: identity crises, love crises, social crises.

CROSS EXAMINING THE SELF
What is happening to me? What comes next for me? What is the source and meaning of my restlessness, dissatisfaction, longing, anxiety? What do I really desire? What have I not brought forth that is within me? What have I contributed to life? What are my gifts? My vocation? What ought I to do? Who says? What does my dream-self know that "I" don't? What story, myth, values, authorities, institutions inform my life? What is my ultimate concern? How faithful am I to my best vision of myself? At whose expense has my wealth, security, and happiness been purchased?" (2000)

But we all know why you really want to rent some MooPig space... don't we?

Reference

Keen, S. (2000) Apology for Wonder, Fire in the Belly, To Love and Be Loved, and Faces of the Enemy: Reflections of the Hostile Imagination.

http://www.newconversations.net/library/keen_on_questions.htm