old memory
+++
Do not distinguish.
What is: Perfectness of Experience.
Smile
smile.
Re-iterating
What it means
It means nothing
Ok. Ok
What remains of this
speaking of
Happiness.
It happened. OK
I sat there and stared at the floor. Who is this HENRY character.
It makes me feel good.
I’m sorry,
I’d like to crawl on the floor
when I didn’t feel this good.
[pause]
Endless now
If you feeling my body are aware.
Feel this body. If it makes you happy,
Touch Touch.
This is the worst existence.
This is the worst existence.
[HENRY is
Awaiting telephone.]
No. No. No. No.
Use your tongue here. Here.
I think you should drink this Henry.
Frank. Who is standing there.
[pause]
Wrong.
I really think you should drink this milk Henry.
HENRY: [pause]
The TV is playing a video; because I want to watch this video you should really watch this Television. Frank.
[TV on]
TV (sings):
Feeling it.
Without remorse.
Feeling it
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Reduces the mind.
I want you to meet someone Henry. Rhoda.
(pause)
What did you say your name was. Henry?
[exit Rhoda, lights go dim, Henry stares up at sun]
H. Yes. My name is Henry.
[Thud. Crew swarming on the table]
GET THE FUCK OFF THE TABLE
WHERE DID SHE GO TO.
L. What looked like it just happened really is impossible. Really is impossible.
I have nothing left to give Frank.
(pause)
What.
Emptiness. Emptiness.
I can’t move my leg.
(pause)
When I gazed at her I gazed into a pit of joy.
Exit Rhoda.
What was it.
What.
Hey Frank.
I want to introduce you to somebody Henry.
[thud]
[Henry crawled on the floor.]
I don’t write. I paint.
(pause)
Do you paint well.
All: Wrong. No. No. OK.
Memories don’t come back.
Where did Rhoda go.
I get so dissipated.
Where.
What is such disease.
Whatever disease it is bad I got it ok.
Yeah. Frank. I think I gonna die soon.
I think that I need to feel her again.
They made her exit.
(pause)
Rhoda had to leave.
When you empty your body by spitting out your body.
I cut myself off. OK. At the head.
(pause)
I am calling to you Rhoda.
Henry Henry Henry Henry
Come back.
No.
(pause)
Help me.
OK. Fine.
No.
Go away.
No.
[Exit Rhoda.]
I don’t feel what they have done to my hand.
Such distraction I think must be for a higher reason.
I don’t know.
I don’t know anymore.
I don’t think anymore about how to be ok inside.
HAPPINESS
If someone calls when I’m out.
[thud]
Don’t answer the phone.
(pause)
+++
Terminal Exit.
A Rhoda by Henry Death.
by Stephen Mosblech
+++
I do not believe this. I want it to be like this I want it to be just like this till we’re dead ok.
HENRY: Yesterday there was a landscape. Where.
(pause)
Hardly a day occurs.
RHODA: What.
I roll up my sleeves.
Rolling up her sleeves.
(pause)
Tears are shaken out.
This radiance. This collapsed radiance. Knock Knock
Knock Knock
Wheeee
Yeah. That’s interesting.
Interesting.
Interesting. Yeah. Ok. Ok.
It’s like a failure happened.
Fffffaaaiiiilinngggg. What.
It’s like a mind.
Yeah.
(pause)
What.
(pause)
Zero. Zero. Zero.
[laughing]
[A rock is placed on-stage.]
I didn’t say it.
Under the circumstances all words deceased. Except.
Nothingness
(pause)
I had this thought.
(pause) [Rock is removed.]
No. No.
(pause)
No.
Answer the question. Or I will LEAVE HERE FOREVER.
(reaching after rock) I wonder if this longing inside me generates an exterior feeling
I wonder if this longing in me-
My teeth have rotted.
(pause)
You’re special, because- your teeth have rotted. You’re not special- ok.
When everything is special you’re not special anymore.
Rhoda is the magic cipher
The magic zero.
Zero
Zero
Zero
Zero
Zero
Zero
You’re special to me.
Shut the fuck up.
(pause)
Henry.
(pause)
Henry.
(pause) They
Shut off my lungs and my teeth
Are rotting…again.
Yeah ok.
[black]
I told them to turn off the lights
They turned the lights off Rhoda.
(pause)
What.
(pause)
I feel I am missing something important.
I hope the phone still works.
I hope the phone will ring. Now.
(pause)
I forgot to think:
What is wrong with me.
Wrong.
NO THINKING SHITHEAD.
N o t h i n g n e s s.
N o t h I n g ness.
These lungs that shut off.
I am hungry.
(pause)
OK. But my teeth are rotting. I think it moved. Hey. I think they moved the rock.
Notice Notice Notice
(pause)
Wrong. Ok I can’t: Ok.
Rhoda: We reject speaking.
Rhoda and the angel
and the angel that
Inhabited her body.
Wrong.
What is Henry doing.
What is Henry doing.
At this moment.
At this moment.
At this moment.
Henry: Henry isn’t talking to anyone by a communication.
Don’t worry. Help me. Instead.
(pause)
ALL: YOU’RE the one You’re the one shut off your lungs. OK. OK. OK.
Happiness.
the PERSONS
Henry X
Rhoda X
Linda X
Frank X
0
RING RING
Hello
Who is there.
Hello
Hello
Who is on the phone.
Who is there please.
FRANK: Under the circumstances
Frank is lead on stage.
[Blindfold black strip around head]
Henry at phone.
the code is unbroken, repeat
zero
zero
zero
1 to reform a head 0
in bardo of Avidici Hell 0
children weep. In the lonely space of the fighter
air planes Zero Zero Zero Zero
0
VOICE:
Dear Henry.
Just remember:
You are never going anywhere.
Never.
Never.
[(off) You have never been here.]
What is it that wakes is death.
I sleep. You sleep. We sleep sleep sleep a new kind of terror.
Rhoda: I sleep. But when I sleep.
When she arrived.
Others: (point to head) Think Rhoda.
VOICE: What happened happened In the imagination.
RHODA: Rhoda thinks it is late at night because we have no bed to sleep in.
Henry: Wrong. Where did the bed go.
LEGEND+++
Just like the rock (i.e. NEVERMIND SHITHEAD).
+ ++
(pause)
Henry takes a step in which direction.
(pause)
After many twists and turns
Smile.
Smile.
Smile.
VOICE: What has happened.
What has happened
HENRY: Wrong. I said: I find a place in the shadows of the sun.
I can sleep in the closet. If I become tired.
After the occurrence of a new soul-twisting.
(pause, turns light on)
Darkness will perhaps blind me.
VOICE: A child weeps. Child dead.
I want you to think of what you see on stage as
eventually rotting. Pea-brain. Pea-brain soup.
pause
HENRY: I pity myself.
RHODA and LINDA: (softly) Notice. Notice. Notice.
VOICE: (overlap) OF WHOM IT CAN BE SAID.
HENRY: I no longer live. I do not desire to live. I continue to not desire to live.
[Rhoda and Linda enter closet. Lights out]
Voice: WHAT COMES NEXT.
NOTHING COMES
WHAT COMES NEXT
NOTHINGness.
Henry: It is late at night because I do not die.
What can equal my private Hell? All things resulting in affliction.
Living in such fear. I cry out for Hell.
(pause)
Child weeps.
[Rhoda slips out from closet.]
Voice: Quiet Please. Nothing Comes. Nothing Comes.
Frank. Linda Rhoda
Frank is disposed.
[Rhoda remove top. Linda turn away and sit down.]
What is this.
Yes she said I do forget
I do forget what has happened.
Rhoda: If you sealed up my eyes, cut off my arms and legs.
(pause)
Rhoda can’t move her leg.
[Rhoda offers milk]
The girl who can’t dance.
Went home to hell, while the Other girls.
(pause)
FRANK: I observed a new resultant, Henry plus milk.
HENRY: What are the difficulties it had now to confront, which it had to deal with, which it then had to manipulate around the void in its life that emerged.
[Henry drinks milk.]
Linda: I must not make a mistake I must not do the opposite.
RHODA: To what end did Henry drink milk.
Knock, Knock.
(pause)
I see inside your brain.
My eyes are flat. I have flat eyes and head.
VOICE:
LINDA IS DEAD ALREADY
LINDA IN THE OTHER ROOM HAS BECOME dead. YOU ARE Deluding yourself about Linda.
Looking closer.
Henry collapsed.
Particularly. I do not think.
Cruelty to persons is a crime.
[Rhoda hand over mouth]
Do not retreat from cruelty to persons is not a crime.
[exit Linda]
Maybe I think we can be happy.
Rhoda.
Frank.
1
RHODA: What are you doing Henry.
HENRY: It is not that I make a statement about inaction or I do not make a statement.
RHODA: [mutters] Just more shit.
My name is Rhoda. But I said: what are you doing here.
HENRY: Excuse me. What is your name. (hands over ears) No. No. No. No. (charges to wall, punching wall). Very well, thank you. I know the secrets of writing in INK.
Enter Linda.
ALL: I know the secrets.
I know the secret.
We ALL know the secret, Henry.
HENRY: FINE. Where is my pencil.
LINDA: I remember a song happened. Please forget the words. Please forget to sing. Zero. Zero. Zero. 1.
HENRY: What is Henry doing today.
(pause)
Look at this place. It looks like the self.
I was going to say.
Nothing Comes.
FRANK: [opens door] Do you really think so? Do you really think that about that?
RHODA: [cross to door] Get away from me. Her looks are altered. Her whole appearance changed.
LINDA (sings): Because my teeth were drilled out.
Because I am dead,
Henry: (who has fallen asleep Suddenly starts screaming) Who the fuck is Richard. My name is Henry. Who the fuck is Henry. Who the fuck is Henry.
RHODA: Nobody asked you to come here, you just showed up.
LINDA: Because my teeth were drilled out.
Examine your fingers.
VOICE: The silence says “Nothing”
HENRY and RHODA: Nobody asked you to come here and you just showed up.
LINDA: (mouth bleeds) The trouble is: this already happened.
Linda fails to express a process of bees in a glass house that is death eroding face if you stare into mirror too long.
FRANK: If it’s been fixed break it.
If it’s broken. It feels GREAT
Just remember:
(pause)
Smile
Smile.
Glass bottle thrown on.
LINDA: The message says. I know all your secrets and the pain and Frustration.
I know all about your pain and frustration. And I am sorry. To go INSIDE your special PLACE and FEEL your mental INTERIOR.
VOICE:
I’M SORRY. I AM SORRY.
I SAID.
FRANK: [Knocks on Linda-head] IS any one home. Any one in there, Shithead. Give me that bottle. I gotta piss. (goes to wall, punching wall. Silence.)
FRANK: We all know the secret Henry. Tell us the secret of writing in ink.
Rhoda unbuttons shirt. Exit Rhoda.
1
Henry sitting in chair. Long time. Enter Rhoda.
RHODA: I opened the door. I open a door. The door I opened appeared to open unto an unadjacent place.
(pause)
What are you doing. HENRY.
HENRY: Rhoda. I shall try and say. Yesterday, standing exactly here. I spoke. A singular venom, extracted from my tooth.
MUTILATION happens happens.
Rhoda. I shall try and explain.
What if I said my mind became stained by inactivity where all things merge with light and drilled into my ankles. Rhoda.
Of what unknown body seething with leaches.
The world egg.
[Frank punching wall.]
Happens. Happens.
RHODA: OK Henry.
HENRY (sings): Ten thousand were the spirits on chariots of wind
Ten Thousand were the spirits on chariots of wind
HENRY: When I speak I don’t move.
Frank: There is no use try and depart from HOME when you’re dead. I am so sorry for the pain and Frustration. Walking down the road, this road leads to hell, GOOD_BYE, Shit-head, It ain’t no use to die if I don’t vanish, nothing equals ten plus two is the soul dies and goes to hell, nothing, what do you think your mind does instead.
HENRY with MILK.
2
HENRY: Sitting in this fashion, too many eons to count, quiet prevents time. Sounds occur, dispersing a Henry.
Silence.
It dawned: organs consisting of nothing. This is not expression, I am not a letter, I become failed, Rhoda too is failed, reduced so far even if we still could penetrate even if we signify could interpenetrate each other. Even if interpenetration of one of the organs of Rhoda by a rotting Henry-system signified it is impossible.
SAYING THE UNAVOIDABLE THING
MEANS SAYING THE IMPOSSIBLE THING
WHICH IS NEVER SPOKEN
Singing:
It is not real and
It is not apparent.
What do you think?
I am the sky.
My Clouds float in the sky in heaven
Fattened on blood
My Clouds are Clouds
Of visions.
FRANK: I feel like twirling, anyone want to twirl.
Frank: The door to the door that just opened for Frank.
Rhoda: My name is Rhoda without the D. Shithead. So saying. She parts the 9-fold flower curtain.
(pause)
Her hair a cloud
(Pause)
Her face departed.
Rhoda weeps.
Frank: I am at a loss.
Rhoda: Off-stage Linda is dead.
Frank: I loss my shoe.
Henry: It is just a thought. It was just a word, that entered my head on the way to hell, it went out again.
Rhoda: Henry rejects speaking again.
Linda: Tell me what happened when you were born, how it felt.
Frank: 1+ 1+ 1+
Linda: Wrong.
(pause)
Drop the Abstraction. Shithead.
Frank: Off stage Linda is dead equals exactly what it says.
VOICE:
I AM SORRY.
I AM SORRY.
I AM SORRY. I AM SO FUCKING SORRY RHODA. YOU CAN SKULL FUCK REALITY ANYWAY YOU WANT
ANYONE CAN SKULL FUCK REALITY ANYWAY THEY WANT
FRANK: ANYONE CAN CAN-CANNOT Exist.
LINDA and RHODA: SKULL FUCK RHODA and LINDA SKULL FUCK Rhoda and Linda X.
Just be free ok.
Freedom is the only way to attain not-dead.
Freedom is the only way you aren’t dead.
3
Henry and Rhoda embrace.
Henry: I love you, Rhoda. You are my sister.
Rhoda: Be careful. Henry.
(pause)
I came in through the door.
(pause)
I entered. Through the door.
Henry: I love you Rhoda. My departure is fixed. I must depart, it is not a disease.
FRANK: I see I am disturbing something.
Rhoda: Yes. Yes. Yes. Of course not. Henry. Did you pack a sweater.
Henry: Look at me. Rhoda. Aren’t I a person, I mean, not a corpse.
Rhoda: Henry (sobs).
HENRY: In my web-like heart, Rhoda
there is no comfort.
Gazing into pit of slugs
Writhing
Like this heart.
The world is such a pit.
Yesterday. Sitting in my chair, soundlessly almost not stirring, as is my wont, what have I done to anyone? I don’t know the details. Absolutely useless. It is useless. Action or not acting. A phone rang. The currents extract you, blown whither I do not know whither I was blown but the telephone-call happened. –Pack your bag, he said. Rhoda and a point and a time to be. Immediately I began to pack my bag. I emerged from my Principle.
GOT TO GET ORGANICIZED TODAY.
TODAY IS THE DAY. FOR AN ORGANIZATIOn
Get well
Get well,
Get really well Henry.
Henry: There is no use in abstraction.
The difference between us encloses us in absence.
Rhoda: Yes. Henry. I love you.
Henry: My train departs in 5 minutes. The deeper I stare into your face Rhoda I’m impaled.
Rhoda: By the vapid whiteness.
By the vapid whiteness, I am impaled, he says. How cold and unfeeling. I need to wash my face. Henry.
Rhoda to toilet powder face. Count to 300.
Henry check watch. Lift suitcase.
Entrails dumped on stage.
A mouse on a string dash cross stage.
Henry: I am this event, and the hands, strangling my neck.
God is a telephone cord.
In the damp sky.
Guts dumped on stage.
A mouse on a string cross stage. Awkward.
Rhoda: It is the most impossible thing to be born a human. It is important how wonderful life is. I keep saying: I should be happy. Rhoda. Be. Happy for Henry. Rhoda is happy for Henry. Like dirt on thumbnail of a vivid life. Such dirty hands.
Scrubs hands with brush in sink.
Henry sit on bench, stare.
HENRY: The dust. Ripping tears from my eyes, that careen down my cheek, like festival of idiots. Looking upon my eyes and see into my brain:
It plagues my consciousness; stop torturing this consciousness.
LINDA: Wait. Don’t open eye.
HENRY: I waited, lapsed and stupid, dread of the ink black land of hell droning into lungs like worms burst my skin feasting on my lungs.
LINDA: Words too are dust.
Linda Licks Dust from HENRY’s eye.
HENRY: Ow. I will sit in silence and solitude. Why don’t you leave me alone.
Exit Linda.
1
Rhoda returns.
Henry: Rhoda. Where were you. I have to leave in 5 minutes. My train will arrive 5 minutes Rhoda and I will depart. I’m sorry Rhoda. I love you. You will remain Here.
Rhoda I love you Henry.
HENRY Looking into your face Rhoda. I am impaled.
RHODA: I know I know I know. By the vapid whiteness. I need to go to the bathroom Henry.
Exit Rhoda.
Henry: Rhoda. My disease. Compels my departure. [the voice on the phone in minute detail, experience of calling] I meant to say my work I meant to say my work Rhoda.
Alas.
Rhoda: Henry.
Examine pencil from breast pocket.
Henry: Alas, my disease Rhoda. I’m sorry.
It is the effect of my intensity of interest. Impermanence has been left behind. And out of impermanence, little by little inched an angel. It didn’t fit in my suitcase.
Get your Suitcase, today is the day. To get Organicized inside.
I AM SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY.
HENRY: I just feel dead inside like I want to die.
FRANK: Admit it. Henry.
What isn’t broken already breaks.
Eventually the world breaks open
Eventually the whole place gets quiet and the silence breaks
down everything to MUD or puke or shit.
And everything is misused because
Its misplaced because it’s misrecognized
Because the real category doesn’t exist
Lightly: get well get sick
Henry
Drink your milk.
Get well get really well.
[Henry twirls]
Every time I do something I become worthless.
Can I have my lipstick. This place is hole in the inside my brain-chamber.
After she had gone I withdrew. And I departed my house. And remained here.
Something else failed. Rhoda failed and in due course I broke down and failed.
In due course the event occurred:
I said hello to Frank, and the door opened.
Frank has no legs.
Wind-beaten, battered, bloody
My personal dreams provoke derision.
Frank entered .
Hello. Hello. Hello
Do not distinguish.
What is: Perfectness of Experience.
Smile
smile.
Re-iterating
What it means
It means nothing
Ok. Ok
What remains of this
speaking of
Happiness.
It happened. OK
I sat there and stared at the floor. Who is this HENRY character.
It makes me feel good.
I’m sorry,
I’d like to crawl on the floor
when I didn’t feel this good.
[pause]
Endless now
If you feeling my body are aware.
Feel this body. If it makes you happy,
Touch Touch.
This is the worst existence.
This is the worst existence.
[HENRY is
Awaiting telephone.]
No. No. No. No.
Use your tongue here. Here.
I think you should drink this Henry.
Frank. Who is standing there.
[pause]
Wrong.
I really think you should drink this milk Henry.
HENRY: [pause]
The TV is playing a video; because I want to watch this video you should really watch this Television. Frank.
[TV on]
TV (sings):
Feeling it.
Without remorse.
Feeling it
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Reduces the mind.
I want you to meet someone Henry. Rhoda.
(pause)
What did you say your name was. Henry?
[exit Rhoda, lights go dim, Henry stares up at sun]
H. Yes. My name is Henry.
[Thud. Crew swarming on the table]
GET THE FUCK OFF THE TABLE
WHERE DID SHE GO TO.
L. What looked like it just happened really is impossible. Really is impossible.
I have nothing left to give Frank.
(pause)
What.
Emptiness. Emptiness.
I can’t move my leg.
(pause)
When I gazed at her I gazed into a pit of joy.
Exit Rhoda.
What was it.
What.
Hey Frank.
I want to introduce you to somebody Henry.
[thud]
[Henry crawled on the floor.]
I don’t write. I paint.
(pause)
Do you paint well.
All: Wrong. No. No. OK.
Memories don’t come back.
Where did Rhoda go.
I get so dissipated.
Where.
What is such disease.
Whatever disease it is bad I got it ok.
Yeah. Frank. I think I gonna die soon.
I think that I need to feel her again.
They made her exit.
(pause)
Rhoda had to leave.
When you empty your body by spitting out your body.
I cut myself off. OK. At the head.
(pause)
I am calling to you Rhoda.
Henry Henry Henry Henry
Come back.
No.
(pause)
Help me.
OK. Fine.
No.
Go away.
No.
[Exit Rhoda.]
I don’t feel what they have done to my hand.
Such distraction I think must be for a higher reason.
I don’t know.
I don’t know anymore.
I don’t think anymore about how to be ok inside.
HAPPINESS
If someone calls when I’m out.
[thud]
Don’t answer the phone.
(pause)
+++
Terminal Exit.
A Rhoda by Henry Death.
by Stephen Mosblech
+++
I do not believe this. I want it to be like this I want it to be just like this till we’re dead ok.
HENRY: Yesterday there was a landscape. Where.
(pause)
Hardly a day occurs.
RHODA: What.
I roll up my sleeves.
Rolling up her sleeves.
(pause)
Tears are shaken out.
This radiance. This collapsed radiance. Knock Knock
Knock Knock
Wheeee
Yeah. That’s interesting.
Interesting.
Interesting. Yeah. Ok. Ok.
It’s like a failure happened.
Fffffaaaiiiilinngggg. What.
It’s like a mind.
Yeah.
(pause)
What.
(pause)
Zero. Zero. Zero.
[laughing]
[A rock is placed on-stage.]
I didn’t say it.
Under the circumstances all words deceased. Except.
Nothingness
(pause)
I had this thought.
(pause) [Rock is removed.]
No. No.
(pause)
No.
Answer the question. Or I will LEAVE HERE FOREVER.
(reaching after rock) I wonder if this longing inside me generates an exterior feeling
I wonder if this longing in me-
My teeth have rotted.
(pause)
You’re special, because- your teeth have rotted. You’re not special- ok.
When everything is special you’re not special anymore.
Rhoda is the magic cipher
The magic zero.
Zero
Zero
Zero
Zero
Zero
Zero
You’re special to me.
Shut the fuck up.
(pause)
Henry.
(pause)
Henry.
(pause) They
Shut off my lungs and my teeth
Are rotting…again.
Yeah ok.
[black]
I told them to turn off the lights
They turned the lights off Rhoda.
(pause)
What.
(pause)
I feel I am missing something important.
I hope the phone still works.
I hope the phone will ring. Now.
(pause)
I forgot to think:
What is wrong with me.
Wrong.
NO THINKING SHITHEAD.
N o t h i n g n e s s.
N o t h I n g ness.
These lungs that shut off.
I am hungry.
(pause)
OK. But my teeth are rotting. I think it moved. Hey. I think they moved the rock.
Notice Notice Notice
(pause)
Wrong. Ok I can’t: Ok.
Rhoda: We reject speaking.
Rhoda and the angel
and the angel that
Inhabited her body.
Wrong.
What is Henry doing.
What is Henry doing.
At this moment.
At this moment.
At this moment.
Henry: Henry isn’t talking to anyone by a communication.
Don’t worry. Help me. Instead.
(pause)
ALL: YOU’RE the one You’re the one shut off your lungs. OK. OK. OK.
Happiness.
the PERSONS
Henry X
Rhoda X
Linda X
Frank X
0
RING RING
Hello
Who is there.
Hello
Hello
Who is on the phone.
Who is there please.
FRANK: Under the circumstances
Frank is lead on stage.
[Blindfold black strip around head]
Henry at phone.
the code is unbroken, repeat
zero
zero
zero
1 to reform a head 0
in bardo of Avidici Hell 0
children weep. In the lonely space of the fighter
air planes Zero Zero Zero Zero
0
VOICE:
Dear Henry.
Just remember:
You are never going anywhere.
Never.
Never.
[(off) You have never been here.]
What is it that wakes is death.
I sleep. You sleep. We sleep sleep sleep a new kind of terror.
Rhoda: I sleep. But when I sleep.
When she arrived.
Others: (point to head) Think Rhoda.
VOICE: What happened happened In the imagination.
RHODA: Rhoda thinks it is late at night because we have no bed to sleep in.
Henry: Wrong. Where did the bed go.
LEGEND+++
Just like the rock (i.e. NEVERMIND SHITHEAD).
+ ++
(pause)
Henry takes a step in which direction.
(pause)
After many twists and turns
Smile.
Smile.
Smile.
VOICE: What has happened.
What has happened
HENRY: Wrong. I said: I find a place in the shadows of the sun.
I can sleep in the closet. If I become tired.
After the occurrence of a new soul-twisting.
(pause, turns light on)
Darkness will perhaps blind me.
VOICE: A child weeps. Child dead.
I want you to think of what you see on stage as
eventually rotting. Pea-brain. Pea-brain soup.
pause
HENRY: I pity myself.
RHODA and LINDA: (softly) Notice. Notice. Notice.
VOICE: (overlap) OF WHOM IT CAN BE SAID.
HENRY: I no longer live. I do not desire to live. I continue to not desire to live.
[Rhoda and Linda enter closet. Lights out]
Voice: WHAT COMES NEXT.
NOTHING COMES
WHAT COMES NEXT
NOTHINGness.
Henry: It is late at night because I do not die.
What can equal my private Hell? All things resulting in affliction.
Living in such fear. I cry out for Hell.
(pause)
Child weeps.
[Rhoda slips out from closet.]
Voice: Quiet Please. Nothing Comes. Nothing Comes.
Frank. Linda Rhoda
Frank is disposed.
[Rhoda remove top. Linda turn away and sit down.]
What is this.
Yes she said I do forget
I do forget what has happened.
Rhoda: If you sealed up my eyes, cut off my arms and legs.
(pause)
Rhoda can’t move her leg.
[Rhoda offers milk]
The girl who can’t dance.
Went home to hell, while the Other girls.
(pause)
FRANK: I observed a new resultant, Henry plus milk.
HENRY: What are the difficulties it had now to confront, which it had to deal with, which it then had to manipulate around the void in its life that emerged.
[Henry drinks milk.]
Linda: I must not make a mistake I must not do the opposite.
RHODA: To what end did Henry drink milk.
Knock, Knock.
(pause)
I see inside your brain.
My eyes are flat. I have flat eyes and head.
VOICE:
LINDA IS DEAD ALREADY
LINDA IN THE OTHER ROOM HAS BECOME dead. YOU ARE Deluding yourself about Linda.
Looking closer.
Henry collapsed.
Particularly. I do not think.
Cruelty to persons is a crime.
[Rhoda hand over mouth]
Do not retreat from cruelty to persons is not a crime.
[exit Linda]
Maybe I think we can be happy.
Rhoda.
Frank.
1
RHODA: What are you doing Henry.
HENRY: It is not that I make a statement about inaction or I do not make a statement.
RHODA: [mutters] Just more shit.
My name is Rhoda. But I said: what are you doing here.
HENRY: Excuse me. What is your name. (hands over ears) No. No. No. No. (charges to wall, punching wall). Very well, thank you. I know the secrets of writing in INK.
Enter Linda.
ALL: I know the secrets.
I know the secret.
We ALL know the secret, Henry.
HENRY: FINE. Where is my pencil.
LINDA: I remember a song happened. Please forget the words. Please forget to sing. Zero. Zero. Zero. 1.
HENRY: What is Henry doing today.
(pause)
Look at this place. It looks like the self.
I was going to say.
Nothing Comes.
FRANK: [opens door] Do you really think so? Do you really think that about that?
RHODA: [cross to door] Get away from me. Her looks are altered. Her whole appearance changed.
LINDA (sings): Because my teeth were drilled out.
Because I am dead,
Henry: (who has fallen asleep Suddenly starts screaming) Who the fuck is Richard. My name is Henry. Who the fuck is Henry. Who the fuck is Henry.
RHODA: Nobody asked you to come here, you just showed up.
LINDA: Because my teeth were drilled out.
Examine your fingers.
VOICE: The silence says “Nothing”
HENRY and RHODA: Nobody asked you to come here and you just showed up.
LINDA: (mouth bleeds) The trouble is: this already happened.
Linda fails to express a process of bees in a glass house that is death eroding face if you stare into mirror too long.
FRANK: If it’s been fixed break it.
If it’s broken. It feels GREAT
Just remember:
(pause)
Smile
Smile.
Glass bottle thrown on.
LINDA: The message says. I know all your secrets and the pain and Frustration.
I know all about your pain and frustration. And I am sorry. To go INSIDE your special PLACE and FEEL your mental INTERIOR.
VOICE:
I’M SORRY. I AM SORRY.
I SAID.
FRANK: [Knocks on Linda-head] IS any one home. Any one in there, Shithead. Give me that bottle. I gotta piss. (goes to wall, punching wall. Silence.)
FRANK: We all know the secret Henry. Tell us the secret of writing in ink.
Rhoda unbuttons shirt. Exit Rhoda.
1
Henry sitting in chair. Long time. Enter Rhoda.
RHODA: I opened the door. I open a door. The door I opened appeared to open unto an unadjacent place.
(pause)
What are you doing. HENRY.
HENRY: Rhoda. I shall try and say. Yesterday, standing exactly here. I spoke. A singular venom, extracted from my tooth.
MUTILATION happens happens.
Rhoda. I shall try and explain.
What if I said my mind became stained by inactivity where all things merge with light and drilled into my ankles. Rhoda.
Of what unknown body seething with leaches.
The world egg.
[Frank punching wall.]
Happens. Happens.
RHODA: OK Henry.
HENRY (sings): Ten thousand were the spirits on chariots of wind
Ten Thousand were the spirits on chariots of wind
HENRY: When I speak I don’t move.
Frank: There is no use try and depart from HOME when you’re dead. I am so sorry for the pain and Frustration. Walking down the road, this road leads to hell, GOOD_BYE, Shit-head, It ain’t no use to die if I don’t vanish, nothing equals ten plus two is the soul dies and goes to hell, nothing, what do you think your mind does instead.
HENRY with MILK.
2
HENRY: Sitting in this fashion, too many eons to count, quiet prevents time. Sounds occur, dispersing a Henry.
Silence.
It dawned: organs consisting of nothing. This is not expression, I am not a letter, I become failed, Rhoda too is failed, reduced so far even if we still could penetrate even if we signify could interpenetrate each other. Even if interpenetration of one of the organs of Rhoda by a rotting Henry-system signified it is impossible.
SAYING THE UNAVOIDABLE THING
MEANS SAYING THE IMPOSSIBLE THING
WHICH IS NEVER SPOKEN
Singing:
It is not real and
It is not apparent.
What do you think?
I am the sky.
My Clouds float in the sky in heaven
Fattened on blood
My Clouds are Clouds
Of visions.
FRANK: I feel like twirling, anyone want to twirl.
Frank: The door to the door that just opened for Frank.
Rhoda: My name is Rhoda without the D. Shithead. So saying. She parts the 9-fold flower curtain.
(pause)
Her hair a cloud
(Pause)
Her face departed.
Rhoda weeps.
Frank: I am at a loss.
Rhoda: Off-stage Linda is dead.
Frank: I loss my shoe.
Henry: It is just a thought. It was just a word, that entered my head on the way to hell, it went out again.
Rhoda: Henry rejects speaking again.
Linda: Tell me what happened when you were born, how it felt.
Frank: 1+ 1+ 1+
Linda: Wrong.
(pause)
Drop the Abstraction. Shithead.
Frank: Off stage Linda is dead equals exactly what it says.
VOICE:
I AM SORRY.
I AM SORRY.
I AM SORRY. I AM SO FUCKING SORRY RHODA. YOU CAN SKULL FUCK REALITY ANYWAY YOU WANT
ANYONE CAN SKULL FUCK REALITY ANYWAY THEY WANT
FRANK: ANYONE CAN CAN-CANNOT Exist.
LINDA and RHODA: SKULL FUCK RHODA and LINDA SKULL FUCK Rhoda and Linda X.
Just be free ok.
Freedom is the only way to attain not-dead.
Freedom is the only way you aren’t dead.
3
Henry and Rhoda embrace.
Henry: I love you, Rhoda. You are my sister.
Rhoda: Be careful. Henry.
(pause)
I came in through the door.
(pause)
I entered. Through the door.
Henry: I love you Rhoda. My departure is fixed. I must depart, it is not a disease.
FRANK: I see I am disturbing something.
Rhoda: Yes. Yes. Yes. Of course not. Henry. Did you pack a sweater.
Henry: Look at me. Rhoda. Aren’t I a person, I mean, not a corpse.
Rhoda: Henry (sobs).
HENRY: In my web-like heart, Rhoda
there is no comfort.
Gazing into pit of slugs
Writhing
Like this heart.
The world is such a pit.
Yesterday. Sitting in my chair, soundlessly almost not stirring, as is my wont, what have I done to anyone? I don’t know the details. Absolutely useless. It is useless. Action or not acting. A phone rang. The currents extract you, blown whither I do not know whither I was blown but the telephone-call happened. –Pack your bag, he said. Rhoda and a point and a time to be. Immediately I began to pack my bag. I emerged from my Principle.
GOT TO GET ORGANICIZED TODAY.
TODAY IS THE DAY. FOR AN ORGANIZATIOn
Get well
Get well,
Get really well Henry.
Henry: There is no use in abstraction.
The difference between us encloses us in absence.
Rhoda: Yes. Henry. I love you.
Henry: My train departs in 5 minutes. The deeper I stare into your face Rhoda I’m impaled.
Rhoda: By the vapid whiteness.
By the vapid whiteness, I am impaled, he says. How cold and unfeeling. I need to wash my face. Henry.
Rhoda to toilet powder face. Count to 300.
Henry check watch. Lift suitcase.
Entrails dumped on stage.
A mouse on a string dash cross stage.
Henry: I am this event, and the hands, strangling my neck.
God is a telephone cord.
In the damp sky.
Guts dumped on stage.
A mouse on a string cross stage. Awkward.
Rhoda: It is the most impossible thing to be born a human. It is important how wonderful life is. I keep saying: I should be happy. Rhoda. Be. Happy for Henry. Rhoda is happy for Henry. Like dirt on thumbnail of a vivid life. Such dirty hands.
Scrubs hands with brush in sink.
Henry sit on bench, stare.
HENRY: The dust. Ripping tears from my eyes, that careen down my cheek, like festival of idiots. Looking upon my eyes and see into my brain:
It plagues my consciousness; stop torturing this consciousness.
LINDA: Wait. Don’t open eye.
HENRY: I waited, lapsed and stupid, dread of the ink black land of hell droning into lungs like worms burst my skin feasting on my lungs.
LINDA: Words too are dust.
Linda Licks Dust from HENRY’s eye.
HENRY: Ow. I will sit in silence and solitude. Why don’t you leave me alone.
Exit Linda.
1
Rhoda returns.
Henry: Rhoda. Where were you. I have to leave in 5 minutes. My train will arrive 5 minutes Rhoda and I will depart. I’m sorry Rhoda. I love you. You will remain Here.
Rhoda I love you Henry.
HENRY Looking into your face Rhoda. I am impaled.
RHODA: I know I know I know. By the vapid whiteness. I need to go to the bathroom Henry.
Exit Rhoda.
Henry: Rhoda. My disease. Compels my departure. [the voice on the phone in minute detail, experience of calling] I meant to say my work I meant to say my work Rhoda.
Alas.
Rhoda: Henry.
Examine pencil from breast pocket.
Henry: Alas, my disease Rhoda. I’m sorry.
It is the effect of my intensity of interest. Impermanence has been left behind. And out of impermanence, little by little inched an angel. It didn’t fit in my suitcase.
Get your Suitcase, today is the day. To get Organicized inside.
I AM SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY.
HENRY: I just feel dead inside like I want to die.
FRANK: Admit it. Henry.
What isn’t broken already breaks.
Eventually the world breaks open
Eventually the whole place gets quiet and the silence breaks
down everything to MUD or puke or shit.
And everything is misused because
Its misplaced because it’s misrecognized
Because the real category doesn’t exist
Lightly: get well get sick
Henry
Drink your milk.
Get well get really well.
[Henry twirls]
Every time I do something I become worthless.
Can I have my lipstick. This place is hole in the inside my brain-chamber.
After she had gone I withdrew. And I departed my house. And remained here.
Something else failed. Rhoda failed and in due course I broke down and failed.
In due course the event occurred:
I said hello to Frank, and the door opened.
Frank has no legs.
Wind-beaten, battered, bloody
My personal dreams provoke derision.
Frank entered .
Hello. Hello. Hello
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