Run (NHB Modern Plays) by Stephen Laughton

Author:Stephen Laughton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nick Hern Books

I think of you…

How you’d never let these morons anywhere near me.

I think of you…

How you’d leap to my defence if you were here…

You.

Umismali Gavri’el …

You.

Of the the the last time I saw you…

Skinny grey jeans.

Woolly grey hat.

We’re both heading home for Shabbat, both sad that we can’t light candles together.

Yet. You say.

And I dunno what happens, I don’t remember how but we go from zero to ninety in about two seconds flat as I spark up some lame-arse comment about Sex and the City, and how vacuous defining yourself by shoes is and before you know it we’re screaming in the street.

Screaming.

And you’re trying to make a point but I’m talking over you.

I’m a bit of a fucker like that.

And you try again.

I block.

And again.

Block.

Can I go on, you demand…

Is it a useful comment? I counter

Well I don’t know because you won’t let me make it.

Well think about it before you do, because if it’s just going to fuel this –

You not letting me speak is completely fueling this…

No, I think you’ll find that’s your overreaction.

And on and round and up and down…

And you’re about to jump in and I stop you again. Warn you off. Again.

And then it erupts.

You do.

Suddenly.

And you tell me, yell me in my face to shut the fuck up.

SHUT.

THE.

FUCK.

UP.

And I lose it.

Oh my god, do I…

And in the accusations and assertions and the shouting and the shoving

And the shouting

And the shoving

It all gets fucked

And brittle

And messy

And it builds and it intensifies and I can’t remember what I’ve said but it basically amounts to fuck you, really to fuck you…

And you’re upset, because we’ve never fought like this before.

I’ve never had a go at you before.

But it’s because I’m upset too.

And I can’t handle being this upset.

Not with you.

And I still don’t quite know how we got from just super-excited to spend time together to you just just just raging off on your bike.

You’re not gonna be my punchbag you yell back.

No one fucking speaks to you like that…

And you circle back.

Demanding to know who the fuck I think I am?

And that look in your eyes as you shake your head.

And that sudden and complete disconnect as you ride off…

Just –

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