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Ingemar Gustafson

      All my life I lived in a coconut,
      It was cramped and dark.
      Especially in the morning when I had to shave.

But what pained me most was that I had no way
to get in touch with the outside world.
If no one out there happened to find the coconut,
if no one cracked it, then I was doomed
to live all my life in the nut, and maybe even die there.

      I died in the coconut.
      A couple of years later they found the coconut,
      cracked it, and found me shrunk and crumpled inside.

      "What an accident!"
      "If only we had found it earlier...."
      "Then maybe we could have saved him."
      "Maybe there are more of them locked in like that...."
      "Whom we might be able to save,"
they said, and started knocking to pieces every coconut
within reach.

      No use! Meaningless! A waste of time!
A person who chooses to live in a coconut!
Such a nut is one in a million!

But I have a brother-in-law who lives in an acorn. 

To ENG 40(Intro to Media w/ Theater Arts) class

Read and analyze the poem.

You are to perform a dramatic monologue relating to the poem.

The target skill of this activity is to build up a lonesome emotion. 

Imagine your life inside a coconut shell. What will you do if you will be in this situation?

How will you deal with your life? What will be your emotion?

Your are to perform it in not less than five minutes. Good luck!