By Jack Bowman
Ó
2001
To be performed
as part of the performance art/poetry piece called “The Philadelphia Experiment”
3 July 2001
| NOTE: THIS CONCEPT (THE SENSUAL SWORD SWALLOWER) WAS USED DURING THE PERFORMANCE OF "A Midsummer Night's Dream" AND THE PERFORMANCE OF "The Worker" (this "Worker" was performed at the 1470 West Club in Dayton Ohio 5 July 2002) |
She walks
She talks
She takes long objects into her mouth
She is the Sword Swallower
India
Egypt
Europe
Beautiful girls swallowing the sword
To entertain
To entice
To astound the eyes of the beholder
Beautiful girls swallowing the sword
For a dime
For a quarter
For you can watch with amazement
As this long dangerous weapon penetrates her mouth
Slowly going deeper
And deeper
To the hilt
And stopping for a moment
Gently sliding out
The shiny blade dripping
Dripping with saliva
And stopping for a moment
Then again
Penetrating
Deeper
And deeper
And the sword is finally removed
And held for the audience to see
And compare to the small frame
Of the sword swallower
STOP, STOP I am tired of this sexual symbolism neo beat poetry. I want
something else
How about separating and manipulating Space and time!
I know Einstein said you can’t separate Space and Time!
How about the Philadelphia Experiment
The Philadelphia Experiment
On the 28th of October at 17:15 in 1943 the U.S.S. Eldridge
disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval yard and reappeared in Norfolk Virginia
for several minutes. It was then back in the Philadelphia Naval yard.
When it reappeared in the Philadelphia Naval yard five crewmembers were merged
with the steel on the ship. Some of the crew were missing and never seen
again. The remainder of the crew were given a medical discharge from the Navy.
You think this happened without separating space and time?
Absolutely not!
So how did the Eldridge leave one space and go to another?
It is not a special math formula like E=Mc2 but an ancient space time warp
illusion called Hell’s back door.
ASSISTANT BRINGS OUT THE MAGIC CIRCLE AND HOLDS IT UP.
As you can see this is a continuous strip of paper. And here we have an open window with the devil’s face. We turn it over and there is a door. If we open the door we see it is a back door to Hell.
My assistant needs an audience member to help her with the Hell’s back door
illusion.
GET SOMEONE FROM AUDIENCE. HE/SHE STANDS TO THE LEFT OF SWORD SWALLOWER.
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As you notice the frame material will not turn around to where the open window is at the Devil’s back.
But as the Sword Swallower and assistant takes
the frame around the magic circle you will see that it never leaves the
surface but when we get back to the Devil we have an open window to hell and
the back door has moved to the front. |
THIS WILL TAKE A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF TIME. PERHAPS ONE MINUTE
AS A GUESS |
This is what happened to the
Eldridge and her crew back in 1943. The open window followed the magic circle
to Norfolk then back again to the Philadelphia Naval Yard. In transit around
the circle is when the mergers of man and metal occurred.
STOP STOP!
Who cares about Space and Time
and Space/time merger crap?
I rather read about a sensuous
girl swallowing a sword.
She walks
She talks
She takes long objects into her mouth
She is the Sword Swallower
India
Egypt
Europe
Beautiful girls swallowing the sword
To entertain
To entice
To astound the eyes of the beholder
Beautiful girls swallowing the sword
For a dime
For a quarter
For you can watch with amazement
As this long dangerous weapon penetrates her mouth
Slowly going deeper
And deeper
To the hilt
And stopping for a moment
Gently sliding out
The shiny blade dripping
Dripping with saliva
And stopping for a moment
Then again
Penetrating
Deeper
And deeper
And the sword is finally removed
And held for the audience to see
And compare to the small frame
Of the sword swallower
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