The Playwright Charles Mee, Linda's Lawn, Riverside Park, NYC 2016

The Playwright Charles Mee, Linda's Lawn, Riverside Park, NYC 2016

ODYSSEUS 2.0

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

by Charles Mee

ODYSSEUS 2.0

I grew up in a little town outside Chicago

where I could walk to the end of the block

and cross the street

and step into the countryside

and keep walking through the fields

past the trees and lakes

crossing the little streams

all the way to Iowa or Nebraska or California

or the south of France or India.

That was my life

when I was growing up.

My formative years.

Anything could happen.

That was my life.

Music.

Odysseus 2.0 turns and sees:

A guy wearing a garbage can upside down

so his head is a yellow glass bowl

in a hole in the bottom of the garbage can

his shins and feet can be seen at bottom

his arms come out the side 

and he sings

UHNUHNUHNUHNUHNUHNUHNUHN

UHNUHNUHN

EEEEEEEEEEEE

POOH-POOHPOOH-POOHRRRA

slslsl

drrrrroomoom

UHNUHNUHNUHN

aaaaaaaaaatzeen

UEEEE EE EE EE EE

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Rrumpfftilffto?

Bee bee bee bee bee

Zee zee zee zee zee

Pe pe pe pe pe

Pii pii pii pii pii

Poo poo poo poo poooo?

Grimm glimm gnimm bimbimm

Grimm glimm gnimm bimbimm

Grimm glimm gnimm bimbimm