Marc Ellis - the-hold.com/march 2001

Nothing
("...No one goes out to buy zero fish....", Alfred Lord Whitehead)

Never present;

Yet never gone;

Distinguished,

by the absence

of something else;

                Something else?

Beauty modestly

steps from her bath;

Echos float

On the gathering silence;

They are part of the silence;

Sound rides on ribbons of light;

The Belgian was right; (1)

Rishis of vanished worlds, (2)

Made me wonder;

            About what?

            Impossible to say, really.

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1. "In distinguishing Nothingness, we define it and give it a form it couldn't possibly as Nothingness, possess...." (Letter to Andre Bosmans 1963).

2. "There was neither non-existence nor existence then; there was neither the realm of space nor the sky which is beyond. What stirred? Where?" (The Rig Veda)

• Born:  Wichita Falls, Texas - 1952
• Raised:  Denver, California, Kansas
• Home:  New Orleans
• Occupation:  Immigration Lawyer
• Edu:  Troy State U., Univ. of Alabama Law School
• Writing - 6 plays:
"The Pollster" (Semi-finalist, Southern Playwright's Competition 1993), "The Ghost of Jean Paul Sartre Visits an Alabama Convenience Store" (1994); "The Focus Group" (Performed 1994 Dramarama Festival New Orleans), "A Man of His Times" (Performed, 1995 Dramarama Festival, New Orleans), "The Hat", performed 1998 Freeport McMoran Theatre, New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center; "Double Espresso"; Staged Reading scheduled for October 1999 at C.A.C.
• :
Numerous Musical Compositions, including "The Fantomas Waltz" and "HOY!", composed for film: "F", Clementine Productions, Hollywood California, Howard A. Rodman Writer/Director, starring Terrence Stamp, Produced by Laurie Parker.
The Fantomas.Org/Pont Mirabeau Station @ MP3.COM

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