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OUR MEGAPHONE
My poetic treatment of a proposal for collaboration
by Richard Maritn Oxman
Dedicated to Essn

“Where there is a great art there is always Heaven.” — Surrendra Shrestha, Nepal, speaking of music… but reminding me of comedy too… and much else.

It’s like I’m wanting to give you a beautiful megaphone, to be decorated as per your wishes.

You make it shine any which way you want. Emblazon your coat of arms all over the cone-shaped device. Let Comedy Union be etched finely along the inside of each and every part. As you like.

Initially, I had the shape of a nineteenth-century speaking trumpet in mind. I was going to carve a little cartoon comedian Mitch Hedberg once drew for me on the outside, and place some lines which Edna St. Vincent Millay recited to me up at her Steepletop when I was a very little boy in 1950. The year after rocks were thrown at Paul Robeson moving by me in Peekskill.

I have obligations.

But no matter. You do what you see fit in good humor.

As long as we have a collective belly laugh too. A refreshing ride for one and all, yes?

I imagined a hand-held device. But your creativity, with your input, we may wind up with some kind of gorgeous electronic model on a stand… for our stand-up scenario. The one I am proposing, as tweaked by you and anyone else who comes on board as a core person.

I wouldn’t have been as presumptuous with you as I have been except for two things: One, the song that is sung — matching the acoustic impedance of the voice cords to the air — can be co-written by you and yours. Two, any aspiring entertainer holding our megaphone may very well wind up being the subject of a spotlight. “Who was that sweet person holding the megaphone?”

Our megaphone.

Richard
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P.S. Comedy Union Party (CUP), actually has quite a nice ring to it, wouldn’t you say? Fill the CUP. And so on. [Pause.] Yes, I like that very much. It would work…. [Pause.] All else being equal (which hardly ever seems to be the case in this life, yes?).