POLDROCK
A Monologue in an Abandoned Saloon

by Joe Praml


“People don’t much give a damn about one another…If I don’t remember him who will remember me when I go?

Pin returns to a saloon where years before he and Forster, a hard-nosed product rep from work, came for an evening of entertainment and got more than they bargained for. They witness a nameless man jump off the ledge of a building next door. Pin is deeply affected by this and returns years later to remember and honor the man called Harold Poldrock. Pin says: “People don’t much give a damn about one another…If I don’t remember him who will remember me when I go?