An extraordinary event
A salon (ooh la la)
Exploring “What is reality?”
Remember in high school when you read about
Voltaire and the Enlightenment
And how he and his lover
Marquise du Châtelet 
Held salons
Where philosophers and poets and writers and artists
Would convene to share ideas
And perform plays
And you thought
Oh yes, that sounds
Very Appealing
You try a VR headset for the first time
A short musical theatre piece
About climate change and the rising oceans
Filmed in the Channel Islands
Off the coast of California
And first you’re on the dock
And then you’re on a boat
And then you’re in the ocean
And swimming in the water and
You have a flashback to Danbury Hospital where
You’re drugged up on morphine and a
Chemical chemo cocktail
And all you want
Is to swim in the ocean
You save pictures of beaches
From your childhood on your phone
And present day you is
Sitting on a hard plastic chair in an old factory in Chelsea
With a slightly cumbersome contraption on your head
And your heart catches in your throat and
Your body feels the longing and
You are swimming in the sea
And the sky is blue
And the music is gorgeous
And the visuals are stunning
And there’s even a hat tip to Esther Williams
And you don’t want it to be over
A room full of theatre practitioners
Folding technology and art
And performing musical plays
And you think about how one day
Manhattan will probably be under water
And you imagine future divers
Exploring Broadway theatres
Like underwater caves
And you wonder
Will they know what transpired here?