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The Flushing Cycle: excerpts from memoir-monologue plays

The Flushing Cycle: excerpts from memoir-monologue plays THE FLUSHING CYCLE excerpts from memoir-monologue plays Alvin Eng THE FLUSHING CYCLE 1. Flush To Flushing Blues Let me tell you a story ‘Bout a guy from Flushing F-L-U-S-H-I-N-G And his Queens Quandary FFFFlushing Flusssshhhhing Fluuuussshhhh-ing Close your eyes and just say “Fluuuussshhhhing . . .” Not a pretty picture is it? Could you imaging someone singing, “I left my heart” . . . in Flushing? or “It don’t mean a thing” . . . If you’re not from Flush-ing? That’s why for years, I’ve been like, “Hi, I’m from . . . (whisper) Flushing.” Not just because of the way it sounds, but because Flushing is in Queens. One of the five fine boroughs that comprise our City. But somehow, we’ve gotten third class New York City citizenship. We’re behind Brooklyn, and, of course, the center of the universe . . . Manhattan. And that’s not fair. Because Queens is the largest borough of New York. And Flushing is the biggest part of Queens. So if you lifted Flushing up and put it somewhere else . . . We’d be a major city. And therein lies that ol’ Queens quandary. Because we are, where we are; So http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

The Flushing Cycle: excerpts from memoir-monologue plays

Eng, Alvin
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art , Volume 25 (1) – Jan 1, 2003
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MIT Press
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© 2003 Alvin Eng
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1520-281X
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10.1162/152028103321658300
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THE FLUSHING CYCLE excerpts from memoir-monologue plays Alvin Eng THE FLUSHING CYCLE 1. Flush To Flushing Blues Let me tell you a story ‘Bout a guy from Flushing F-L-U-S-H-I-N-G And his Queens Quandary FFFFlushing Flusssshhhhing Fluuuussshhhh-ing Close your eyes and just say “Fluuuussshhhhing . . .” Not a pretty picture is it? Could you imaging someone singing, “I left my heart” . . . in Flushing? or “It don’t mean a thing” . . . If you’re not from Flush-ing? That’s why for years, I’ve been like, “Hi, I’m from . . . (whisper) Flushing.” Not just because of the way it sounds, but because Flushing is in Queens. One of the five fine boroughs that comprise our City. But somehow, we’ve gotten third class New York City citizenship. We’re behind Brooklyn, and, of course, the center of the universe . . . Manhattan. And that’s not fair. Because Queens is the largest borough of New York. And Flushing is the biggest part of Queens. So if you lifted Flushing up and put it somewhere else . . . We’d be a major city. And therein lies that ol’ Queens quandary. Because we are, where we are; So

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Published: Jan 1, 2003

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