Tag: 365 monologues

  • 127: answering the public (fawm 2016)

    i took a step up to the podium
    i cleared my throat into the microphone
    everybody raised their eyes at me
    as if they’d already known

    i made a statement
    i took some questions
    i answered some and i left some open
    i thanked my wife
    and i thanked god
    but most of all i thanked my cpa
    for
    fudging the numbers
    hiding the stats
    throwing my money
    into a laundromat
    taking my alibi
    and making it stick
    now here i am
    answering the public

    all these cameras keep on chasing me
    all these people don’t buy my line
    they think that i’m a big old phony
    they think that jail is where i
    should spend my time

    i told them something
    they want to hear
    got home, laid in bed and
    nursed my beer
    in my head i thanked
    a corrupt system
    but most of all i thanked my lawyer
    for
    preparing a statement
    taking my bribes
    showing the courtroom
    that i’m a real good guy
    drinking my whiskey
    and being a prick
    now here i am
    answering the public

    inst

    no one i know can ever touch me
    no onw i know has got the joie de vivre
    i’ve built my mansion on their bodies
    i caught their accusations on my sleeve

    if you were worried
    well here’s the thing
    you’re just a pauper
    while i’m the king
    i took your money
    and thanked you too
    but most of all i thanked
    my goddamn self
    for
    scamming the system
    devising the scheme
    turning your sadness
    into a fucking meme
    living the good life
    and taking my pick
    cause now here i am
    answering the public

  • 126: patrice

    [for added effect: imagine samuel l. jackson reading this]

    fudge. i’m talking fudge. i’m talking lots of fudge, like fifty pounds of fudge. just here on this table. just sitting right here in the middle of the table, looming over the table like it owned the whole goddamn room. and, look, i’m human. i’m like you. i see fifty pounds of fudge on a table and i want to eat it. i want to consume it. i want to rub it all over my body, i want to stick it up my ass, i want all of that. but i don’t. and you know why? because it’s not. mine. it’s not my fudge! it’s the director’s fudge, and the director’s going to be here in ten minutes and he doesn’t have his goddamn fudge. now imagine if you went somewhere with full knowledge that a significant amount of fudge would be available to you, once you arrived. it doesn’t have to be fudge, per se. whatever makes you happy. pussy. you guys are all teenagers, right? we’ll say pussy. fifty pounds of dripping wet pussy, the mome–okay let’s say 120 pounds of dripping wet pussy, fifty pounds makes you sound like a pedophile–the moment you step in the door. now imagine if some fucking shitheads came in before you arrived and took your pussy. you’re sitting in your car, dick hard as a diamond, just waiting for that moment where you throw the doors open like fucking aragorn in that lord of the rings bullshit, and there’s this mound of pussy for you to pump your tiny teenage dicks into. oh man it’s gonna feel so good, it’s gonna feel so good you’re gonna cum in like ten seconds, just like the director is gonna eat all that fudge in ten seconds. except it’s not there. because some SHITHEADS took it. they took your precious pussy. that’s what the director is going to think once he’s arrived. “they took my fudge,” he’ll think. and then he will murder all of us. so before he steps in that door and shoots each one of you in the back of your dumb skulls, somebody fucking PIPE UP and tell me where that fucking FUDGE IS!

  • 125

    donald duck never wore pants, right? and mickey mouse never wore a shirt. and goofy wore a whole damn outfit, even with a vest and shit. so what’s up with that? donald duck was a sailor and he never wore pants. you know that shit would not be tolerated in real life. at least a guy can walk around with no shirt on. also does mickey ever take those huge gloves off? does he wear them because he has huge puffy black hands and he’s embarrassed by them? or are they so comically huge because underneath them he just has weird spindly mouse hands like real mice do? i bet it’s that. mickey always seemed like an anxious guy. it’s the laugh.

  • 124 (a dream)

    you turn to the television screen. on it is a older man with graying hair, breathing heavily. it’s a medium shot, you see above his torso. he’s wearing dark eye shadow. in front of him, out of focus, is the upper half of a young woman’s face moving back and forth. she’s wearing pigtails. he’s fucking her, doggystyle, but that’s all beneath the shot. behind him is a swirling rainbow light pattern, reminiscent of the 60s. no music, just him panting and her silent, emotionless. the soft slap of his body against hers. eventually her head dips below the screen as she rests her upper body on the bed. he just keeps fucking her. he looks a little distressed; this wasn’t the easy job he thought it would be. the act is tiring him out and he’s panting harder and harder. the rainbow pattern swirls faster and faster. he’s giving her his all. she pops back into frame, looks back at him. “do you want to rest?” she asks in a soft, low, caring voice. he shakes his head no, and sweat droplets fly off his face and onto her body. he grunts and keeps going. she looks into the camera. she knows it’s there but has no problem with it. he keeps fucking her. the rainbow swirl slowly slightly. he brings his arm up to his face and wipes his brow with it. swears softly. she says quietly, “come baby, come baby, i want you to come,” and her voice is more girlish than before. he says “more, more,” and she says loudly,” come baby, i want you to come so deep inside me,” and you can see his body slow down as the urge to come fills his entire being. he comes, hard, and almost growls as his body shudders. he collapses onto her back. she is moaning, but more of pleasing him than of pleasure. she pulls away from him and lies on the bed, out of frame. he flops down beside her. the rainbow swirl flicks off. the camera stops.

  • 123: terry

    if i finance this project, i want only one thing: co-starring role as the wisecracking sidekick. who’s the star? the rock? dwayne “the rock” johnson? then what about me as the five-foot-eight, 120 pounds, pale as the day is long, wise ass sidekick who always knows the best quips to sling at the bad guys. it’s basically typecasting. guy gets caught stealing from an ice cream truck, and i say, “looks like just went down a *rocky road*.” you get it? it’s the name of a popular ice cream flavor! it’s so perfect, i’m willing to fully finance this project so long as i get to say all the cool stuff after the rock gets the bad guy. he, he, he just took down a guy who was parasailing and then i say, “looks like the next place you’ll be sailing to is *prison*.” get it? get it? god it’ll be so great, yeah, i’ll give you five million now and the rest when i get a script. i can’t wait to be a part of this. the rock nabs a bad optometrist and i’m like, “i’ll *see* you in hell,” get it because of EYES.

  • 122: jones

    look, i’m out of things to say. i’ve said everything. i think my life contained a reservoir of words and i’ve used them up. useful words, i mean. this is it, this is the end of my vocabulary. once these words are spoken i will have no words left. all the meaningful ones have been said, and now all i have left is this. what is this anyway? are these the meaningless particles in the universe that no one bothers to measure? are these sound waves destined to die against iron walls, or fizzle out amid the cosmic background radiation of the universe? what is the meaning of the end? when i am finished talking, there will be no more words left for me to speak. i will be mute until the day i die. and none of you seem to be taking this in. i can feel it already, i feel my lack of words, i feel unable to say much more than this. my word reservoir is dwindling. linguistically i am dying, i am dying. my throat is closing up, i told you i am out of things to say, you didn’t believe me but it’s true, i’m out–[he keeps moving his mouth but words stop coming out. he stops. then he gesticulates: “see? see i told you so! fuck!”]

  • 121: what knows the pageant (fawm 2016)

    surveys the crowd
    the only place she feels safe
    the lights and the sound
    her bodice it starts to chafe
    imagines the crown
    placed on her head
    when they said

    what knows the pageant

    standing outside
    trying to light a smoke
    shivering hard
    her jacket slung like a cloak
    stung like a bee
    she finds her words
    before all the girls
    are culled in herds
    she needs words

    what knows the pageant

    the other 49 seem calm
    (like the end of a broken record)
    they’ve got the judges in their palm
    (and hearts rendered out of cardboard)
    she feels nothing in her chest
    (but a brand of insipid feelings)
    fakes a smile when she’s addressed
    (but the lights have her reeling)
    the announcer speaks
    in all bass, no treble
    his question a mess
    but she looks so good in her dress

    what knows the pageant

    surveys the crowd
    the only place she feels safe
    the lights and the sound
    her bodice it starts to chafe
    imagines the crown
    placed on her head
    if only she remembered
    what she said…

    what knows the pageant

  • 120: ohio hurts an america thought (fawm 2016)

    everyone’s talking out their ass today
    gotta find a new group of friends
    eighteen, stuck in the middle of nowhere
    akron, ohio!

    myriad of hours to while away
    working at the lonely hardees
    on the east side
    taking smoke breaks in the parking lot
    and not just tobacco!

    pack my aging backpack to the brim
    board the train heading west
    watch the sun streak by in an empty sky
    i am longing for a new life
    longing for one
    let me go

    might as well go to university
    smack dab in the middle of town
    21 and i’m a freshman in
    akron ohio!

    studying business like the bourgeoisie
    working mornings at the einstein brothers bagels
    i’ll never see a coast on either side
    no matter what i do

    jab my thumb out onto the interstate
    hope i’ll hook a ride to portland
    maine or oregon i don’t care
    i’m just longing for a new life
    longing for one
    help me go

    all these years i thought
    i could run away
    but i’m stuck in the middle
    felt my roots grow deep
    i keep losing sleep
    i am grasping for a new life
    grasping for one
    let me go

    standing knee deep in a mortgage
    wife kids and a couple of dogs
    55 and finding peace here in
    akron ohio!

    tryina loosen all this baggage
    take a couple swings at the brookledge golf course
    my handicap is high but i’m alive
    in akron ohio!

  • 119: in altars (fawm 2016)

    [February is February Album Writing Month, or FAWM. I’ve thus been focused more on lyrics than monologues. But the hell with it, I’ll just post my lyrics like monologues, kill two birds with one stone. Just think of it as musical theater.]

    take solace in the fact
    that you’re a sliver in the universe
    that you’re taking up a tiny little spot
    as the virus on an atom called earth

    so ruthless your attack
    trying so hard to destroy this nucleus
    but no matter the tonnage of the bomb
    you’ll never move on
    you’ll never find out
    if this was ever worth it

    so descending to your knees
    tendrils searching for an answer
    from above
    crying out for divine love
    for someone to tell you why

    in altars you describe
    how the land was formed by omni hands
    how the life was given gentle breath
    how you owe your soul to the one above

    but something doesn’t jibe
    you’ve scanned the yellowed pages for connection
    rubbed your fingers over tiny fonts
    wondered how small the smallest thing could be?

    pressed your palms together thus
    formed the question of the meaning of us
    the shiver in your breath
    but nothing left
    from the heavens to discuss
    now your parish wants to know
    what you learned up in the mountaintop glow
    there’s a hollowness inside
    no answer coincides
    and there’s no wisdom to bestow…

    in altars came the pain
    told the nonbelievers what they want to hear
    kept the crusade as defense against affront
    while you studied secretly the smallest things

    your responses were to feign
    and pretend that something out there loved us all
    but in darkened rooms the tears would always fall
    as you reconciled your existential angst

    when you looked up at the stars
    to distract yourself from numerous wars
    fought for an abstract cause
    you pause
    and mourn the death of scores and scores
    your just god never spoke
    your consciousness never awoke
    to the sound of the praying mass
    you cast aside the belief
    with a sigh of relief

    take solace in the fact
    that you’re a sliver in the universe
    that you’re taking up a tiny little spot
    as the virus on an atom called earth

  • 118: joanie

    look, let me just say what i want to say and then i’ll be out of your hair forever. okay? because i’ve got this, this, this soreness in my chest, right, this thump thump thump and it’s not my heartbeat, it’s my body … fighting over whether to tell them or not. it’s my conscience, it’s my consciousness … we have to tell them, jake. that’s what it’s telling me, it’s been telling me this for ages now. we have to tell them. the more time we spend with our mouths zipped up, the longer the ache pulls me down, and i’m afraid in a year or two i just won’t be able to take it anymore and i’ll blow my brains out, just to stop this constant aching. the only thing stopping me is you and those big meaty fists of yours. i don’t even care if i go to jail anymore. look you can tell them i did it, jake, you can tell them i did everything just as long as people know. people gotta know. they gotta know. i see them on the news and i– i just can’t take it anymore. they’re dying, jake. they’re dying inside. and i feel it and it’s making me die inside too. you know i love you jake but that won’t matter if i can’t feel anything for anyone. you get me? you get me jake? if we don’t tell anyone tonight i’m gonna kill myself, i swear to god. if you care about me even one little bit you will let us talk. let us talk jake. let us talk.