Intern K's workshop was "Interview with a Character." The workshop was for fiction people I think. They were supposed to generate interview questions and then have their character answer them. It was creepy how the characters answered them. Do writers of fiction really have that many personas in their head at one time? How crowded! Anyway, I took this in a different direction. I wrote a sort of poem consisting entirely of interview questions. The speaker becomes increasingly manic... I think s/he has boundary issues :)
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Why did you pick this coffee shop?
Is there an animal you always seem to see in cloud formations?
Have you ever looked up the Rorschach test online?
Did you see the same animal?
How do you take your coffee?
Do you even like coffee?
Is there a single life event that you think will make you happy or fulfilled?
What are your views on acquisition?
Do you regret that one time behind the 7-Eleven?
How do you interpret all those fire dreams?
What was the last object you lost?
Mirrors: approach / avoid?
How does it feel to be a slave to corporate brainwashing?
At what age did you realize you liked coffee?
Does the day really destroy the night and the night divide the day
or is that just some acid-laced bullshit?
Sushi: approach / avoid?
Baths or showers?
Do you feel your life needs to contain a passion?
Did you collect anything as a child?
If you could save any object in those fire dreams what would it be?
Do you think a cat is closer to being an object or a human; why?
Did you have any hobbies as a child?
Birds: approach / avoid?
Who have you loved that has died?
After someone has died, are they a that or a who?
Do you worship a god or gods?
Do people have auras or is that just some new-age bullshit?
Were you the quiet kid in class?
Do you believe in the need for role models?
What about movies based on comic books? Lives of the saints?
When do you believe in restraint?
If you could change one thing about the person you most admire
what would it be?
People who use the word literally and then elaborate with something
that is literally impossible: approach / avoid?
When is lying forgivable?
Would you like a glass of water?
Do you have a motto or mantra?
Doy ou believe in the power of mantras to change your thinking
or is that some Eastern religious bullshit?
Power tools: approach / avoid?
What is the value of friendship? Of marriage?
Would you say you came from a "broken home?"
Would you say you have a "rich inner life?"
When are cliches forgivable?
What is the / who would you / if you could / on what occasions—
vis a vis death?
Which words or / how is the / your favorite—
in regards to marriage?
Do you want me to stop recording now?
Have you lied about anything during this interview?
Are you sure?
Have you had enough?
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