Rehearsal

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.”

“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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