Chorus: The house opens on a set. The set is on a stage, the stage is an
outdoor ampitheater in the middle of a park. The park is a normal park with walking paths.
The set is warmly lit and many-carpeted. You are warm from the warm liquid you drank. You drank warm liquid.
Chorus: Meanwhile, somewhere,
Two people walk into a cvs
But they do it through one body,
Or a thing called a
telephone.
Context: characters should be spoken as if very thirsty
: Its strange
: Whats strange
: This place. All this packaging.
: You mean like this store
: Yeah. and all the things. the plastic pieces of paper, shiny and
transparent, letting you see right to the very middle of something,
to the substance in the thing.
: Like the individual pockets of substances. Imagine them now
without their casings. Imagine walking into a room where all that
holds between
Context: Your shared mouths are
dry, you may faint.
(hey are you okay) and in front of you[1] (stay with me friend)
: are all the floating collections of substances.
Chorus: Liquids held in their shape and hanging above the inside form of the ChapStick, the smaller bodies that are held in place, unsecured even without the parent-form of plastic. Polymer turning slowly through seawater. You have swallowed the gloss. It crinkles in you.
I think Id like to be in a more isolated place right now.
Okay, just walk somewhere else.
[1] my food is on the table right now, quickly browning, try to get hungry in time to eat. side effects include: feeling
nauseous, but anyway, what is a meal without nausea.