230* NW


Its nighttime now………..we see fading glorious light.


Then: A woman and a man……… the man speaks first



Its not your road you know.

……It’s too far and not now, we can’t do that now.


Listen to those dogs

…….Don’t smoke so close to me and where did you get them from, I thought there wasn’t any on the island any more.


……….Look, your hands have changed colour……….look………….How?


………Please don’t ever tell me.


Its nothing, 200km of sleepers


………200km of sleepers, I like that sentence it sounds lovely.


After everything…you still manage to talk about those little things and then there is a little bit of light.


………Please don’t tell me


I still have some wishes


……….your blue eyes could be brown, full brown circles. So fine.


For you all this is really nothing…………….it doesn’t really matter……….you are wherever you want.


……….To have a perfect circle


What is that smell?


We have nowhere to go.


……..no


Directions


……No


There is no road.


………no


What is that noise?


The stairs?


…………..the sky.


Its cold.


…………..Listen to the dogs bark……..everything is changed…………..


LOUD NOISE.



Enter 5 or 7 year old….girl. So there are 3 people in the room now.


Dig, dig a hole…..go go………….I don’t like to feel this way.


………….you’re a crocodile.



Guess I need some education.


…………..can’t remember


In my arms your warm and smooth.


Wah wah wah……..tie together…tie together…hear ye hear ye....must have some coffee…….I’d die………baby.


………….I can’t remember

It’s plain to see……….no misery. Subtle. Now what I see in the long twilight…………on a hill so white…………..Your face glows, a golden you. I don’t think anybody knows what they do. For the tender things are upon us now, fragrant, evening air, I could leave this world quite without a care…… shadows swim.

I’ll buy for you a real fine hat, that’s for you and that’s where it at.


………….I could just sort of not be there, just come and go and jump in the lake…drip dry time…what I want.


Look outside the dog is turning red.

Spooky the way some people live.

I……….yes……….I mean, no. No I don’t understand! I don’t.


Setting:

Forest, open paths and small clearings near a pond-bog-small lake. Several houses, doorways, corridors, rooms and windows. Always wooden or concrete buildings. The colour brown is important, sky blue or ultramarine, white, black, orange/red and strong yellows.

20* NNW


The year;

Early 20th century or perhaps early 21st century



We hear dogs barking somewhere, the smell of cigarettes and the sound of feet on stairs.

Voices growing louder, a sort of flashlight, static buzzing sounds, then feet stamping. Its’ snowing outside.

……………..oh yes…………sorry…………..there you are.

They enter the room.

Can I keep this?

>Yes

Look out the window, listen, everything is so dark

>Look at those lights over there,…………………and there. It makes you feel like we are sat inside a Christmas tree and that if you look up glitter is falling from the sky.

I can’t understand that……look at this……..the whole place is lit up………………………..

I heard this:

………………………………………………Where are you? Where are you?



Its dark, lets go out and smoke. Step under those trees and listen with your eyes.


Then:


Cigarettes are not abstract, just sort of gestures or something, not abstract. They are certain moods or something. Images, sounds and a sort of chattiness, phonetic and occasionally formal and it makes for intermittent idiosyncratic punctuation. They are farcical, obscene, ludicrous, a slave of a spirit which a later age will perhaps no longer comprehend. It is similar to a shadow that lies like a dog at your feet. Perhaps there are greater things and fairer silvery tones in nature, but this is mine and known to me, a blood relation, and more indeed than that. It’s a flesh eater.

Twilight







>I had to

So it was you……how could you?…..of all the people ever to have said anything……..you.

>I had to. Do you know what they said they would do?

When did this start?………Please don’t tell me you did this all along!……………….it wasn’t you all along. You have been telling them all along?

>I had to.

You knew this all along?……………………………………..why?

>I had to.