"List of things that will never love me.
- my stapler
- my three hole punch
- my shredder
- the apple in my sack lunch
- fire hydrants
- halitosis
"Things that provide comfort, which can be confused with love, but is in fact the impartial completion of an intended function:
- Gold Bond medicated powder
- gummi bears
- dirty magazines
- You Tube videos of people falling on the ice.
- A mother's breast. And here you wrote an asterisk with a note at the bottom of the page that reads: only applicable during the breast feeding years which should never be continued once the child is old enough to ask for it by name and indicate a preference for right or left.
"Things that I love regardless of their ability to love me back:
- Sleeping pills"
So you can see why I discarded this and moved on.
1 comment:
Lovely. My discarded play involved 3 scenes in bed:
scene one: a dead mother, grieving father, and kid trying to hold it together
scene two: all of them in bed together, kid about 5 years old
scene three: pregnant mom and dad in bed, daydreaming about trips to the grand canyon and hiking and who their child will be
I may write it someday, but when I have more than 6 pages and I'm not so tired. Coulda been a major fuckin' downer. So I went for literal bedtime story slapstick.
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