Matthew J. Spireng

Cleaning Up

The cast and crew are gone after three days of filming. I’m cleaning the porch where they shot several scenes. Kurt Russell walked there after being out in the plowed field last week.

Actors Beau Knapp and Luke Hemsworth walked there more recently. I’m wiping away a boot print on the floor. Kurt Russell wore work boots and maybe it is his. Maybe

I should preserve it. Luke Hemsworth, who was there just two days ago wore work boots too. Beau Knapp did not. I wonder if I’m destroying a boot print made by Russell or Hemsworth.

But the workers who took down the fake wall just yesterday stepped there more recently. Art Department Leadman Alex McCarron and painter and cast member Noël Ramos

both wore work boots as well, so maybe the boot print is one of theirs. Maybe I should save the boot print to remember them by. But now it’s done, cleaned away. Kurt

Russell is gone. Luke Hemsworth is gone. Alex McCarron is gone. Noël Ramos is gone. The cast and crew of fifty are gone. Maybe it was my boot print, the last to step there.

Matthew J. Spireng