Those Weren't The Days
Cast:
Everett
Seth
Setting: Two chairs, Everett sits with his head back, he is in an almost-dreamy, happy state. Seth is leaning forward, head in his hands.
(Lights up)
Everett: Those were the days, huh, Seth?
Seth: No, they weren't.
E: (not paying attention to Seth) Yeah....
S: Nooo...
E: Just you and me...
S: You.
E: Drinking and chasing girls.
S: Vomiting.
E: The sex, man, the sex, huh, Seth?
S: The pathetic groping...
E: So many women...
S: ...or the pathetic begging?
E: Each one hotter...
S: ...more infected...
E: ...than the rest.
S: ...than the rats.
E: Hard to believe, huh, buddy?
S: Very hard.
E: Just a regular guy like me.
S: A trust-funded deadbeat.
E: Can have come so far...
S: Away from decency and honor.
E: ...that I can't even see where I started...
S: Because your past wouldn't want to claim you...
E: ...anymore.
S: ...no less.
E: Ahhh, who needed them all?
S: Those people with redeemable qualities?
E: They drag down the free spirit...
S: The cheap soul...
E: ...of a maverick like me.
S: ...of a fucked-up pretender like you.
E: Now, look at us!
S: From far away.
E: Me!
S: You!
E: The risk-taker...
S: The shit-maker...
E: The Romantic...
S: The Narcotic...
E: The Dreamer...
S: The Drunk...
E: The traveller...
S: The lost...
E: And the travels...
S: And the loser...
E: The man with a mission...
S: That he can never put his finger on.
E: Just you and me, all these years.
S: Just you.
E: What next, huh?
S: I don't exist.
E: It boggles the mind.
S: Of those who have minds to boggle.
E: Buddies.
S: I'm not real.
E: Best friends.
S: You made me up in grade school.
E: Inseperable.
S: And, now, even I'm leaving.
E: What men need.
S: Too sick, too sad, too worthless.
E: A permanent pal.
S: Goodbye, Everett.
(starts exiting)
E: Someone to count on.
S: Count me out.
E: We're all we need.
S: Don't think of me, please.
E: Yeah.
(pause, Everett looks around)
E: Hey, pal? Buddy?
(lights out)
(end)
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