OPIUM CONFESSIONS ON A SWING A Play in One Act By John Lavin
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"O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?" --W.B. Yeats
Phillybloco performing at World Cafe Live on August 6, 2016 Photo by By John Lavin.
Author, Safe Kids Stories (safekidsstories.com)
All stories appearing on this page are literary works of fiction and drama and bear no relation to living persons with the exceptopn of historical figures such as Sonny Stitt, Louis Armstrong, Shakespeare and other famous figures.
"They gather in the vague light where they meet during those moments after dawn on a playground where children do not have the luxury of playing, but where addicts shoot up and where the schoolteacher awaits with the people living and dead who haunt him. In that offensive place, intended originally to bring joy to innocent children, they meet to lament their loss of innocence . . . . Our purpose here is to respect the desire of the confessors to share their common sense of what can be done about this world . . . " See Spanish Version
Epilogue from Opium Confessions on a Swing
Talking Drums
Writing, Reporting, Conflict Resolution and Community Confernce .
Talking Drums brings communities together to read one another's words, thoughts, and to restore the humanity.
John Lavin
Interview (October 5, 2020) with Mr. William Lucy, Secretary Treasurer of American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees Union (1972-2020).