Of all the materials God had laid his hands on
the story they tell is a rib
where is the rest of me
where did God gather it from
what did he knit me and my mother
and her mother and her mother from
I think when God reached into Adam
He pulled out a spine
with a long string of guts
and dragged it through the mud
He made me from clay and blood
fired in the sun
He pulled a rib out of that man
like a switch the width of His thumb
Adam must be angry to be missing
what his Father used to build me
Did he scream into my ears
the breath of life
or was it God
Dex is a poet and former USMC Military Police Officer. You can follow her here.
What’s happening at VetRep…
Now showing at The Parlor is “The Absurdity of it All” by Chris Soucy, a VetRep Resident Artist. Chris is an Army veteran, co-founder of Odd Lot Improv and the Savannah Shakes Theater Company, and has worked as an actor, puppeteer, writer, director, and filmmaker, with over 30 years of experience in the theater industry. We are thrilled to produce “The Absurdity of it All”, as the first full-length play written for VetRep by a Resident Artist, promising a truly unique performance you can’t get anywhere else. Get your tickets before they sell out!
We would also like to extend our gratitude to Arts Mid Hudson for awarding VetRep the Dutchess programmatic grant in support of this production.
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.