Rioting in an american memory play

 Rioting in an american memory play

fiction

edward w pritchard

I am concerned that this rioting recently occurring in america cities will disrupt the apartment and glass menagerie collection of our casual friend Laura Wingfield  of St Louis, Mo. As you may recall the apartment can only be entered by the fire escape and due to Laura's brother not paying a recent electric bill the apartment is temporarily without electricity. 

I am worried that Laura will trip and fall in the darkness partially caused because of the electric bill situation and from complications of her bad leg. If I could get over to the St.Louis of the 1940's America I would take an old paint brush and paint a red cross on the door of the Wingfield  apartment at the fire escape entrance so the rioters would know that the people living there are one of us; good Americans a little down on their luck. 

Perhaps if anyone reading this gets over that way, to St Louis in a memory play of the 1940's  written by Tennessee Williams they can help Laura Wingfield, also known as Blue Roses, sign up for disability because of her bad leg and the anxiety caused by her inability to properly entertain gentlemen callers. Although I  only know Laura casually I often worry about her and her Mother living there alone in St Louis where nothing ever changes for a poor family living at the top of the fire escape in a dusty old apartment with no electricity and only a glass menagerie collection of horse and unicorn figurines for entertainment.