Monday, December 3, 2012

Blood (Monologue Version) 12/3/2012


(Actor may be sitting with a pen and a lot of paper, writing to release thoughts)

        I wish I didn’t know better.  Life would be so much easier.  I know too much, think too much.  I think my sense receptors are outta wack.  There’s so much to take in that it’s impossible to keep your sanity here.  I feel like we’re all walking through this thick fog; reaching out ahead of us with the hope of making contact.  We keep yelling at each other but the moisture clogs our ears to the point of deafness. 

       No one else seems to see this.  Or maybe they do but they can’t define it like I can, cause that’s scary yea? I mean it takes away any possible reason for living, hell it even questions our very existence.  But let’s not get too existential at the moment, ‘cause that never ends well.  I don’t wanna be the downer all the time so when I feel like this I spend a lot of my time alone. I go through the motions, continue to stray, drift, do what I can to feel…to feel-(actor gets a paper cut from one of the sheets of paper and reacts appropriately, then chuckles).    

       Blood. I love the color. It fascinates me.  How can something so subtle be so rich? It represents life, portrays passion.  It streams through my body like the tributaries of the Amazon.  It dances through my veins to an inaudible beat.  The steady pulse keeps me alive.  It keeps my thoughts flowing and my hand moving across the page.  But sometimes it feels trapped.  Sometimes it feels suffocated.  It tears at my brain, pounds against my skull begging for release.  And me? There are times when I want to comply.  Grant the wish.  An escape.  A release, freedom.  Sometimes I long to see it flow.  Trickle out from my arteries to drip onto the floor.  I love the color.  The sight of it surging out from underneath my skin, soaking the pages, drowning my world in its deep red paint; reminds me that I exist.  

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