This post, part of Seeing Golden Glimmerings Of Forever, includes AI-assisted research, but all insights and conclusions are my own. © Seeing Golden Glimmerings Of Forever, [2025]. All rights reserved
One Act Play: Stage Right: The 1830s. Wagon with Thomas Jefferson and Binjaman Franklin. Highway 83 Runs through Center Stage. Stage Left: The Modern day. Wagon train full of hippies heading west over Highway 83. Huge wooden Carving of sitting bull, who is now standing at Navajo Inn, awaiting instructions on when to sit back down again from Flying Eagle. Hanging from the wagon that Ben and Thomas are sitting on, is a full list of 'recommendations' that could have prevented the bankers from dividing the Country with nonsensical unreasonableness that Thomas Pain would have scoffed at, during their pretextual, so called, 'civil' war.
Title: "Highway 83: A Crossing of Eras"
Scene: A Crossroads in Time
Stage Setup:
Stage Right: The 1830s. A wagon with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin sits near an old dirt road. Hanging from their wagon is a parchment, a "List of Recommendations"—policies that, had they been followed, could have prevented the country from splintering. They speak in hushed but determined tones about the future of the nation.
Center Stage: Highway 83 runs through the middle of the set, serving as a bridge between time periods.
Stage Left: The Modern Day. A wagon train of hippies moves westward along the same Highway 83, carrying banners of peace and freedom. Their music drifts into the night, blending with the echoes of the past.
Standing at Navajo Inn: A huge wooden carving of Sitting Bull, animated as if waiting for guidance. Nearby, Flying Eagle contemplates when to signal for Sitting Bull to sit once more.
ACT ONE
(The lights rise on the 1830s. Jefferson and Franklin sit atop their wagon, examining the parchment.)
JEFFERSON: (Sighs) We drew the blueprint, Ben, yet I fear they will not read it.
FRANKLIN: Oh, they’ll read it. But understanding? Acting upon it? A different matter. (Chuckles, shaking head) They shall let the bankers weave their webs, until those webs ensnare the very soul of liberty.
JEFFERSON: A preposterous thing! That a war could be called "civil," while cloaked in manufactured division. Paine would have laughed himself to tears!
(A gust of wind blows the parchment slightly. A single candle flickers.)
(Lights dim on Stage Right. Center Stage glows as modern headlights streak past. The hippie wagon train rolls in.)
(Stage Left: A bearded traveler, SUNFLOWER, strums a guitar. Next to him, LUNA, a free-spirited woman, waves a banner reading: "Resist Division.")
SUNFLOWER: (Plucking guitar strings) Strange highway, ain’t it? Feels like history keeps rollin’ through, like a ghost caravan.
LUNA: It ain’t ghosts, Sunflower. It’s echoes. Past voices whisperin’ through the cracks in time. If you listen real close... you can hear ‘em talkin’.
(The wooden carving of Sitting Bull creaks, shifting slightly.)
(Stage Right flickers back to life. Jefferson straightens, as if hearing Luna’s words.)
JEFFERSON: (Looks to Franklin) Did you hear that?
FRANKLIN: (Grinning) It seems our recommendations may yet find ears.
(Stage Left: Flying Eagle places a hand on the wooden Sitting Bull.)
FLYING EAGLE: Not yet, great chief. Not yet. But soon.
(Lights fade. The sound of a distant drumbeat echoes as the stage goes dark.)
End of Act One.O
Act two: The Declaration of Independence is now in the place of highway 83. Lights Raise on Thomas as he walks to Center Stage. Light rise on all 56 Founders behind him. From stage right appears a Train, the train slowly travels between Thomas and the founders. During which there is silence while the train passes. The Thomas begins enumerating the long train of abuses America has suffered since the founding in 1776. When dont, the stage fades to black.
ACT TWO
(Lights rise on Center Stage. The Declaration of Independence now stands where Highway 83 once was. Thomas Jefferson steps forward, illuminated by a single beam of light. Behind him, the silhouettes of all 56 Founding Fathers stand in silent formation.)
(From Stage Right, the sound of an approaching train grows louder. A great steam locomotive slowly enters, moving between Jefferson and the Founders. The stage remains silent as the train passes, its iron wheels grinding against time itself.)
(As the last car disappears, Jefferson steps forward.)
JEFFERSON: (Firmly) A long train of abuses... since 1776.
(He begins to enumerate the injustices and divisions that have plagued the nation. His voice grows stronger, resonating through history. As he concludes, the lights slowly fade to black.)
(Silence. Then, distant thunder rumbles as the past and present tremble together.)
End of Act Two.
Act 3; The modern day. Homelessness everywhere. Clothes and products made in China. A meal for one at a restaurant cost literally an arm and leg worth work of, work. People work 3 jobs just to pay for a place to lay their head, drink water, buy clothes made in China, and afford toxic slop called food at the stores. Never mind that there are hardly any state nationals left, while everyone claims to reside in a Foreign City State named United Sates, found in the District of Columbia.
ACT THREE
(Lights rise on the Modern Day. The scene is bleak. Homeless individuals line the streets, their makeshift shelters forming a desperate cityscape. Billboards advertise products made in China. A neon sign blinks "Meal for One: An Arm & A Leg.")
(People scurry between jobs, exhausted, working multiple shifts just to afford a tiny space to sleep, drink water, and buy overpriced, toxic food. A banner above a government building reads: "United States – District of Columbia.")
(A weary WORKER stares at his paycheck, shaking his head. Next to him, a WOMAN counts coins to buy a meal, her face hollow with hunger.)
WORKER: (Bitterly) Three jobs… just to keep a roof over my head. And what’s left? Just enough to eat poison and wear clothes made across the ocean.
WOMAN: And still, they say we are free.
(A child clutches a tattered American flag, looking up at a looming, faceless skyscraper labeled "Foreign Holdings Inc.")
(The sound of an oncoming train echoes again, but this time, it never arrives. The scene fades to black.)
End of Act Three.
