Beltane                  Waxing Dyan Moon

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.” – Edith Sodergran

Waiting for Al

Act VI

Curtain rises on Al and Norm, their heads peak out from two ballot counting machines.  Al is stage left; Norm is stage right.  Debate on the floor of the US Senate floods the audience.  First Norm, then Al, turn their heads as if trying to listen.

The stage has no props other than the two voting machines and a small bench.

As a debate over the appointment of Supreme Court nominee  Sotomayor turns harsh, three persons dressed only in black robes come out, stand in front of the bench, then sit down.

Al and Norm cannot see the bench.

Al spreads his face in a patented Saturday Night Show smile, wide and goofy, then turns serious as a voice in the senate debate suggests Sotomayor is a racist.

Norm starts to smile, changes his mind, a look of concentration.

A voice from the Senate debate:  “We cannot allow racial or gender politics to have a place in the decision to place a candidate on the Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court is for all the people, not just special interest groups.”

Another voice, this time a woman’s:  “… pregnancy and a woman’s right to choose what happens to her body.”

Nods from the three in black.

Norm and Al furl their brows, show evident interest.

An Al Franken campaign appears on a rear projection screen behind the justices.  No sound.

Al breaks into another wide smile as the ad plays though he cannot see it.

A Coleman ad.  Norm smiles.

The three persons in black robes rise off the bench and say together:  “Things are Normal.”

Al and Norm’s heads disappear inside the ballot boxes.