January 31, 2005: Go sit on the group W-2 bench
A pair of Pirandello paradelles

One

 

As a matter of fact, we have come here in search of an author.

As a matter of fact, we have come here in search of an author.

An author? What author?

An author? What author?

Author! Author! Come. Search in here.

As a matter of fact, we have an author.

 

I can't see. Let's have a little light, please!

I can't see. Let's have a little light, please!

Yes sir, yes, at once.

Yes sir, yes, at once.

Can't please? Let's have at sir once.

Yes! Yes! I see a little light.

 

Come along! Come along! Second Act of "Mixing It Up!"

Come along! Come along! Second Act of "Mixing It Up!"

Who are you, please? What do you want?

Who are you, please? What do you want?

Who do you want to please? Come along. Mix it up! Act!

What? Are you coming second?

 

Our search can't matter. Come along for once.

I see. A second please. Let's have at who? What act?

What a long... fact. Come here. Do you want to mix it up a little?

Yes, author, yes! Author! Author!

Are you coming? Sir! Please!

Have a light?

 

 

 

Another

 

What do you mean by both at the same time?

What do you mean by both at the same time?

It isn't right.

It isn't right.

It isn't.

You write. What does "by both at the same time" mean?

 

Ask her how it was!

Ask her how it was!

Yes, it's true. I had come into his room...

Yes, it's true. I had come into his room...

It's true. It was how I had come to ask her,

"Yes?" in his room.

 

This is my punishment:

this is my punishment:

the passion in all of us must culminate in her final cry.

The passion in all of us must culminate in her final cry.

My cry is punishment. In her, this:

the final culmination of the passion in us all.

 

What I mean by it is:

you had come into this room to ask all of us,

"How was it?" Both at the same time!

My punishment must culminate

in the final passion, her right to truth, his cry

"Yes!"

Catherine Daly