The performers step out into the lights, their shoes in calculated footsteps
which they've done many times before, each time learning
until the performance is perfected.
Yet there's always a choice when they reach the table:
knives or apples?
The actors need knives to cut apples, but they could just as easily use their teeth
to take a bite.
Violence then, does little to solve a problem but often creates more.
So are these truths?
Is this absolute truth? The performers walk around the table,
in circles, like dancers,
as their legs cast shadows in the strong lights from overhead
I see one actor squint his eyes
as if narrowing them to make a decision
He takes an apple from the table and throws it into the air,
by the time the apple comes down
gravity has shown us
all we need to know.