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Setting The Seal On NZ PoetryMurray EdmondACT ONE
A wharf.A Young Man comes with a bundle of books under his arm. He stops at the end of the wharf. He drops the bundle of books into the water. Young Man: Not a single copy sold.
ACT TWO
The same wharf, some years later.A Young Woman comes to the end of the wharf. Young Woman: When I was young and very wise…
She jumps off the end of the wharf.
ACT THREE
Under the water beneath the wharf the Young Woman has found a copy of the Young Man's book and is reading it.Young Woman: If I had known about this book, I never would have jumped.
ACT FOUR
The Young Man, no longer now a young man, has returned to the wharf where he threw away his unsold books.Young Man No Longer Young: One reader would have been enough.
He jumps.
ACT FIVE
A Seal clambers up the side of the wharf and flops onto the planks.Seal: My body bedded in sea-midmost wave
after drear days I felt again the sun
The Young Man (young again!) and the Young Woman
(forever young) are seen
walking together on the wharf and reading a book.
They do not see the Seal
behind them.
Young Woman: Did you hear a seal bark?
CURTAIN
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