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Issue 8 • Winter 2003 • Featured Writer • Drama
Linda EisensteinScene 5Scene 5
A tinkly temple bell.
Spot on MARLA.
MARLA
Devotion. Devotion is a very powerful thing. There's nothing weak or passive about it.
I mean, look at nuns and monks. They're tough cookies. Catholics, Buddhists, Hindus. They go to bare rooms ringed with flame and soft, pungent smells, sit on their heels and quiet their minds. There can be sounds all around, the rush of the world -- screeching tires, slamming doors, even machine-gun bursts -- but they still can go to this quiet place of Devotion. Where their hearts can open and fill with love. Where they can feel the universe pouring love in their direction.
I'll bet they become like magnets in their bare rooms -- a lodestone so charged that all the good energy in the world runs their way, like a river or a fountain. They pull it to them on their breath, and it gets supercharged and magnified
inside them and then they breathe it out. And the wind carries their devotion through the air like spores that float out over the city. And for a split second, there is no pain in the world.
Boy oh boy. I'd like to learn how to breathe like that. Even once. Boy oh boy. I sure would.
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Table of Contents: Marla's Devotion
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Linda Eisenstein's plays and musicals have had over 100 productions throughout the world. Her award-winning plays include Three the Hard Way, The Names of the Beast, Marla's Devotion, Discordia, Star Wares: The Next Generation, and Rehearsing Cyrano. Her plays and monologues have been published by Dramatic Publishing and appear in anthologies by Smith & Kraus, Heinemann, Penguin, and Vintage Books. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Blithe House Quarterly, Kalliope, Whiskey Island, and Anything That Moves. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
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