6 May 2023
White Face / Clown Detective / Imaginary Friend / Traincar Vagabond
Featuring original music from Zoe James Beard a.k.a Words for Minors, a cover and remix of a song called “Traincar Vagabond” by the artist Johnny Velveteen (from Flowers of Beltane), as well as the short stories, poetry and songs, “White Face,” “Clown Detective,” “Imaginary Friend,” and the aforementioned “Traincar Vagabond” by Romey Petite and performed by Mort of the Dead.
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Southern Pines Soundbite #1 (https://soundcloud.com/tags/1):
Rosemary: Hello, hi there—my name is Mort. I’m a dead author.
Passerby: What?
Rosemary: My name is Mort. I’m a dead author. I’m here writing poetry. This is my friend, Words for Minors, who is playing beautiful music for us.
[Passerby leaves.]
Rosemary: Hello… hello! Hi!
Child 1: Mommy, scary… look!
Rosemary: My name is Mort. I’m a dead author. This is my friend, Words for Minors, who is playing—
[Loud car horn, people walk onward]
Rosemary: Hello! My name is Mort! I’m bringing a little of my favorite city in the world here to Southern Pines. I’m from New Orleans, Louisiana…
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Southern Pines Sound bite #2 (https://soundcloud.com/tags/2)
Rosemary: Hello there! Hi, there! My name is Mort—I’m a dead author. I’m out here writing poems. This is my friend, Words for Minors. Words is playing beautiful music on this melodica which is a little like a haunted version of a harmonica meets an accordion...
Passerby: Very nice.
[Person walks onward down the street]
Rosemary: Yes.
Rosemary [to Zoe James Beard]: We’ve got to keep—whatever this is—we’ve got to keep doing it.
Zoe James Beard: Yeah.
Rosemary: Yeah.
Rosemary [to a passerby]: Thank you so much!
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Southern Pines Soundbite #3 (https://soundcloud.com/tags/3):
Rosemary [to a passerby]: Hi, I’m alright—how are you on this lovely day?
Passerby with child: I’m alright. I’m good. Nice mask!
Rosemary: Thank you so much!
Passerby with child: Did you make it yourself?
Rosemary: I’m a mask-maker.
Passerby with child: Oh, cool.
Rosemary: I also play a dead author.
Passerby with child: A what?
Rosemary: A dead author.
Passerby with child: Oh!
Rosemary: My name is Mort. The dead author.
Passerby with child: Oh, okay.
Rosemary: I have work at the Sunrise theater at 2, over there. And I do readings at the Open Mic at Swank and the Neon Rooster.
Passerby with child: Oh, cool.
Rosemary: And I’m writing poems today.
Passerby with child: Awesome.
Passerby [to child]: Do you know how to write poems?
Child: Yeah.
Passerby with child: Do you know what a poem is?
Child: Yeah.
Passerby with child: What’s a poem?
Child: A poem is…it’s kind of like a paragraph but like sort of...with a beat.
Rosemary: That’s… that's pretty good.
Passerby with child: Yeah! It is! Actually, yeah!
Rosemary: A paragraph with a beat. I like that.
Passerby with child: Yeah. It’s a lot better than what I could have come up with.
Rosemary: That’s great. You know what? I don’t think I’m going to forget that. Will you tell me your name, again?
Child: My name’s Light.
Rosemary: Light?
Child: Yes.
Rosemary: Like…from the sky?
Child: Yeah.
Rosemary: Well, thank you, Light—I think you’ve brightened my day.
Passerby with child: Awww!
Passerby with child: Thank you guys for showing your artwork out around here—
Rosemary: Thank you!
Passerby with child: You’ve given us some light.
Rosemary: These are my stories. I’ve write lots of stories. I’m handwriting them down so I—
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