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Rehearsal

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Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Reena has shared an image and this quote
by Albert Camus to use as our inspiration:
“Communication is impossible with slaves.”

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Reena’s Xploration Challenge

“Communication is impossible with slaves.” The phrase was stitched into their training manuals, footnoted and filed away …. an excuse disguised as an observation.

He remembered a time before the lock, before the ear plugs, when his voice had shaped rooms, turned heads, started arguments worth having. Now the microphone was a prop in someone else’s story.

They wanted to say he’d chosen silence. They wanted footage of a man who simply had nothing left to say.

So he stood there, holding the mic like a question no one would let him ask.

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This is “I Talk To The Wind” by King Crimson

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #447

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