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Ordering Greens is two characters in one; a waitress and a patron. One
orders something simple, mixed greens. The other complicates it with
questions on styles of mixed greens, selections of specials, dressing
options. One orders the house on the side and is asked questions about
sides, sides of the plate, on the plate, apart from the plate, plates. Over
and over, complication on antagonistic complication, they mix up, obfuscate,
belittle schedules, herbs, reservations, pepper, calendars, planners. Back
and forth, in requests and obstacles, from one to the other, in movement and
dialogue, off on tangents, misunderstandings and word complications, the
simplicity is lost and they forget what they wanted. Ordering Greens is a
metaphor for the search for simplicity in our complicated lives. |