{"id":208,"date":"2017-11-15T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.dustysheldon.com\/?post_type=theatre&p=208"},"modified":"2017-11-25T20:39:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T20:39:17","slug":"court-theatre","status":"publish","type":"theatre","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/court-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"
She calls them to her, conferral, you do not know what is going on<\/div>\n
there is code and negotiation<\/div>\n
How will you begin?<\/div>\n
Woman with big silver chains over a lilac patterned blouse gestures<\/div>\n
man speaks low, tie straight down and sharp<\/div>\n
bewildered clients stare straight ahead<\/div>\n
Was the performance in line with or a departure <\/em><\/div>\n
from what you experienced?<\/em><\/div>\n
he pressed down there, and over, the muscles strain<\/div>\n
liquid darker this hurts, he does not care and presses, inches<\/div>\n
note the finger down and into tender<\/div>\n
my breasts mine again now really<\/div>\n
spots sore inside bruises<\/div>\n
not for any hospital<\/div>\n
telephone chains, survivor language, note to speak note<\/div>\n
police station marble floor echoes when I make my report.<\/div>\n
How will you live now?<\/div>\n
No. I did not ask<\/div>\n
my breast felt, bruised, squeezed hard<\/div>\n
fibers spring out of their sockets<\/div>\n
shape new contours.<\/div>\n
Body I do not know<\/div>\n
Naked. My wheelchair outside. I can’t run. I am bound<\/div>\n
to these words,<\/div>\n
my neck bristles, right now, I write down<\/div>\n
these glimpses of memory<\/div>\n
words I remember dredging up<\/div>\n
for the police woman,<\/div>\n
the guy at the station, the man in the suit,<\/div>\n
How did the site influence your performance?<\/em><\/div>\n
The prosecutor in the courthouse.<\/div>\n
The corridor.<\/div>\n
Outside the bathroom,<\/div>\n
consultation, ties, high heels.<\/div>\n
Tell me what you know about dismemberment.<\/div>\n
We sit here, legs crossed. She sits. He sits.<\/div>\n
We hear stories of robberies.<\/div>\n
Is your client pleading?<\/div>\n
What was it like for you to see what you said <\/em><\/div>\n
through another person’s body?<\/em><\/div>\n

we wheel into the courthouse and I swat away sensation and the pressure the pressure the blood comes to the surface again, and prickles in my neck hairs upright, and “this is a classic PTSD episode,” she says, watch the light go and go and go and go and No. I say, I know I said that, and I repeat it, and you better listen to me, man tie.<\/p>\n

I am pleading to let me out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"we wheel into the courthouse and I swat away sensation and the pressure the pressure the blood comes to the surface again. “this is a classic PTSD episode,” she says.","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/theatres\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/theatres"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/theatre"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}