Lantern Review: Issue 5
18
(finally breaks the awkward silence)
You two got a lotta nerve
coming here
(beat; 28 and 38 fold their arms and look away)
Where the fuck have you been?
28
Busy.
(38 moves slightly downstage, back to 18 and 28 arguing, sadly looking into the audience)
18
Busy? Like I’m not?
I come out here every week to see him.
You lost track, moved on.
28
I have living people
to take care of.
18
As if the dead ones don’t matter.
28
You act like Kronos is all that matters.
Takeo Rivera
18
He is!
28
(scoffs)
That’s all you live on
The memory of him
You can’t just grow the fuck up
and realize that the world keeps turning,
Instead,
you suck the memory of him dry
to push your Huey P. fantasy
as if it’s gonna change a damn thing
18
At least I still dream
28
You dream like a little girl
waiting for Subcomandante Charming to sweep you off your feet
Meanwhile, I’m doing the real
fucking
work
Work that could’ve saved Kronos’ life
Goddamn, I’m embarrassed
I was you,
you immature grassroots commie cliché