“where have all the flowers gone?” pete seeger
THE TRIAL OF GEORGIA O’KEEFE
INQ
Miss O’Keefe, is it true that your flowers
are really subconscious depictions of female genitalia
and, therefore, subject to the obscenity laws of
this free and beautiful country,
which would make you a criminal in the eyes of the law
and a pervert in the eyes of our Lord?
OKEEFE
Senator Hell, are you putting my flowers on trial?
INQ
Miss O’Keefe,(puffing on a cigar) would you please answer the question.
O’KEEFE
Sometimes a flower is just a flower, Senator.
INQ
But is a flower always a flower, Miss O’Keefe,
or is it sometimes
ahhh is there a way to put this delicately?)
ahc vagina?
O’KEEFE
(Georgia smiles.) Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Senator.
Or is it sometimes a cock?
INQ
I’l be asking the questions, Miss O’Keefe.
O’KEEFE
Could you please repeat the question, Senator?
INQ
Is a cigar always a flower or is it sometimes a cunt?
O’KEEFE
Is a cigar always a flower, or is it sometimes a cunt, Senator Hole?
INQ
That’s Hell — not Hole!
O’KEEFE
(Georgia laughs) Flowers, cigars, cunts — what a still life that would be.
INQ
(Inquisitor hits the gavel.) Miss O’Keefe is held in contempt of congress. O’KEEFE
I am not in contempt of congress. I enjoy congress. I always have. REPORTER
How did it go, Miss O’Keefe?
O’KEEFE
The cow skulls I paint
have more inside them than the skull of Senator Hell.
******
GEORGIA
SOFT PETALS
UNFOLDING
TENDERLY REVEALING
SOFT,SOFT,SOFT
OH GEORGIA
THE LIPS ARE IN THEIR EYES
SOMETIMES A FLOWER
IS JUST A FLOWER
OLD COW SKULL
COLLAPSING
STARK DESERT
BONE, HARSH, BONE
OH GEORGIA
AUSTERE BEHOLDER
YOU, A WELL IN A BONE DRY LAND
A SKYSCRAPER
SIMPLY TOWERING
MAJESTICALLY ILLUMINATING
METROPOLITAN COOL
OH GEORGIA
DETACHED OBSERVER
A MONK IN BLACK
IN A COLD,HARD CITY OF STONE
WHITE LIGHTNING
WATER TREMBLING
A BOLT UNVEILING
THE EYE OF A STORM
OH GEORGIA
WEATHERED OBSERVER
SIMPLY CONNECTED
TO YOUR SOLITUDE
from the play Tightrope
see webpage and youtube
Tightrope 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nigOrDoH-T8
43:56