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Daily Archives: January 14th, 2009

Chris

Chris rips up her crumpled staff paper and bangs on the piano for a few seconds. “ !” she shouts under it. “Why do I have to compose and notate and arrange everything to write music? Why can’t I just draw what I feel, and have the stupid flautists play that?”

“You can’t,” points out Katrin, “actually draw.”

“Exactly! I can compose well, if I try, but my drawing would be shit regardless!”

Katrin shrugs. “Constrained creativity produces stronger results.”

“This from you? You’re an extemporaneous free-verse spoken word poet!”

“Yeah,” sighs Katrin, “but what I really want to do is direct.”

Haka

Almost four weeks since the last rain, and Haka and Jot feel anxious eyes as they mount the low steps to the altar. Around them, the wooden gods glare down, limbs fetal, teeth sharp.

“What may we offer, mighty ones?” Jot begs.

They cast carved bones for an answer. Haka carefully sets them in line.

“HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA–,” he reads.

They do it again.

“–AAAAAAAAAAAAAATS,” Haka concludes.

“SRSLY,” adds Jot, reading the littlest ones.

They get a bunch of novelty baseball caps at the tourist shop downtown and stick them on the gods. Then they cast a third time.

“FUCK YEEEEEEEAA–,” Haka reads.

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