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*A Not-So-Sacred Kiss: a tragedy in one act

by Mainon A Schwartz



[curtain]

door [slams]
rain [patters]
engine [silence]
while he revs another.
it's your cue.

[enter] mainon
semipretty face [soaking innocence]
[cross stage left, the seat]
lips [mashing] with
less romance than pro wrestling
hands [wandering]
less sensation there than in the
pain from the audience's laughter.
thoughts [distant]
here's the [blocking]

and [action, no lights]
like a movie, it's not real
picture [fading like sunset]
time [begins]

door [slams]
rain [patters]
engine [starts]
pull away,
it's your exit.

[applause... that was it]

[take a bow]

[speech]
not even quite one year
since my lips tasted others
and trembled in shame.
i've come so far in such
a short time, what an
achievement. i don't have
much further to go.

[standing ovation]

[curtain]

crushed rose petals on the stage cover the ragged
shreds of her regret. it's over, that was the break
she needed.

10/08/2001

Posted on 10/08/2001
Copyright © 2024 Mainon A Schwartz

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