Tehachapi's Artist Community - grungehobbit.com

The theatre students at Bakersfield College have put together a showing of Anna  Deavere Smith's Twilight Los Angeles 1992. The play consists of monologues of various people concerning the riots and other events that took place after the verdict in the trial of the officers the beat Rodney King. That description doesn't do justice to the performance. The show continues next weekend (Thursday, Friday & Saturday) March 11th, 12th, & 13th. The price is remarkably low too. $5.50 ($3.50 seniors and students). The Doors open at 7:30 and the show starts at 8:00pm.

cast on the cave wall
are patterns of light and dark
telling a story

shadows cast across
empty quiet downtown streets
footsteps echoing

reshaping the world
with complex simplicity
today slips away

Zeno dances on
the back of a tortoise
while Achilles looks on
as the geometric sum
comes to completion
in an eternal instant.

Yet harmonic explosions
of unconstrained expansion
break limits past unity
and on to infinity.

'Til parallel projections
constrain the singularity
completing the circle
And the tortoise takes
an infinitesimal step
forward.

chaotic artwork
of clouds smeared ‘cross the sky
follows hidden rules

dreams fading embers
drift into a starry sky
and new horizons

winter rain falling
down out of the steel gray sky
germinating dreams

in a crowded room
emotions percolating
in darkness hidden

shifting sand shaped

by wind into ventifacts

transitory images

of the face of mortality

crumbling beneath

the weight of time

with only catastrophe

freezing the wrinkles

into stony permanence