Sneak Peek at The End
Hey! Just a quick one for funsies.
Here's a sneak peek from the play (called "The End") that I'm writing (currently in fairly early development). I'm leaning into synthesising my poetry and some of my other creative work. So this scene/poem/whatever the hell is here for your reading enjoyment:
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A queen emerged from sauna steam,
fur-covered from head to toe,
textures tempting,
Her eyes were
A1: (sung) Hungry
A2: (sung) Dreaming
A3: (sung) Roaming
A4: (sung) Raw
We locked into the you-know-what-I-want-and-I-know-what-you-want-and-we-will-never-have-this-moment-again stare,
looked down and his mouth was
A1: (sung) Begging
A2: (sung) Wide
A3: (sung) Tight
A4: (sung) Waiting
Between sharp breaths I could almost hear Hemphill shout
A1: THIS
A2: NUT
A3: MIGHT
A4: KILL
A1: KILL
A2: KILL
A3: KILL
ALL: KILL
ALL: US
On my part that was a lie,
I knew full well I could not die,
so we fucked like fags with no tomorrow,
while all I had was tomorrows.
My
A1: (sung) Flesh
A2: (sung) Blood
A3:(sung) Sinew
A4: (sung) Soul
Was so used to feigning the dance of mortality,
the rhythm without the blues.
If only I could give a little of this so-called gift:
A1 - To - [A1 improvs a description of a person based on research, but made up on the spot, should be more about a feeling than a biography - like "Marcus who loved the moment where sun, sea and sky touched"
A2 - [as above]
A3 - [as above]
A4 - [as above]
[After their lines they start to say name after name after name overlapping over and over until the music kicks in, you as a director decide how long that is]
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