Play 324: Boils to the Top

CHARACTERS
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1
How’re you doing?

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I feel weird.

1
How so?

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Just, hollow.

1
Why?

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I had this massive attack of anger earlier.

1
So?

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It drained me.

1
Oh.

(Pause.)

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Emotions are strange.

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How so?

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They’re these weird intangible things, and we have no real words for describing them. Accurately at least.

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I guess.

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And yet they’re from inside of us. Some bizarre fragment of our subconscious that boils to the top.

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Yeah.

(Beat.)

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And for intense emotions, when they surface, they rage through us. A tempest of feeling from the raw core of us that we never see.

(Beat.)

And then it stops. The fragments settle down and it’s still. But disordered too. Everything’s the same but it’s all mixed up, thrown around, settled in random piles.

(Pause.)

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I kind of feel like being alone for a bit.

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Okay.

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Sorry.

1
I understand.

(Blackout.)