1. Flashcards
(Top of scene)
Bird hits glass
Snap head up & look at window
MAJORY
Yes ma’am.
Raise head after Marjory leaves
AGATHA
(Steely) Down.
(p. 8)
Lower head
AGATHA
If she does, we shall break her of that immediately.
Raise head
AGATHA
Down.
(p. 10)
Lower head
EMILIE
Oh! Well. A dog! Very large dog! Nice doggy.
Raise head & look at EMILIE hopefully
AGATHA
It is very large and very dangerous. You must never touch it.
Look at AGATHA dolefully. Head down after she hisses.
AGATHA
It will be many things, sister.
(Beat. Stare out the window.)
A bird drops from the sky
like a stone in the stomach
like all your happiness
fleeting, then gone.
The gorse extends
the sky extends
many things extend.
Happiness, I suppose, does not extend.
I was once upon a time, greatly satisfied.
I believe. I do not remember clearly.
I put my face against my mother’s side.
There was milk.
I imagine this caused me satisfaction.
I would not presume to call it… “happiness.”
(Beat - sadly).
There is nothing lasting in this world.
Birds drop and drop
there are always more
the sky keeps spitting out birds
and the birds keep dropping.
In that sense, you might say: birds are lasting, in this world.
To which I would reply: it is never the same bird.