A woman walks into the space.
She sits,
stretches her legs in front of her,
raises her arms above her head,
tilts her head back and opens her mouth wide.
She is expecting something.
Black.
1 I see
2 two-
3 three-
2 two
4 people
3 flowers
4 people
1 on a / beach
2 / train
3 / cliff
4 / mountain top.
(Pause)
1 In a city,
2 underground,
3 in a wasted old building that stretches the length of a block
4 in a wasted old / building-
3 in a wasted / old building-
4 in a wasted old building-
(pause)
2 I’ll keep walking.
1 Keep trailing.
2 Step
3 step
4 step
1 don’t
2 step
3 step
4 step
1 don’t
2 step
3 step
4 step
1 don’t
4 step
3 out
4 into
3 of
4 nothing
3 place.
(Pause)
1 When there’s a wide / open space behind you
2 When there’s a wide open / space behind you
3 When there’s a wide open space / behind you
1 When there’s a wide open space behind you.
(Pause)
4 When
1 you
2 stop
3 in the wide open space
4 pull your body out,
1 jump
2 / out
4 off
3 and keep on walking.
Two people in the space.
1 It didn’t look like what she thought it would look like. It smelled different too. It smelled like fresh earth. Not like death. It smelled like tiny green buds rising from crumbling dirt. It smelled like footprints in dust.
2 She couldn’t walk.
1 She couldn’t walk, so she sat on the concrete. She stretched her legs out in front of her. She reached her arms above her head. She pushed her shoulders back.
2 Her throat constricted.
1 She tightened the muscles in her throat. She opened her mouth, stretched her lips as far as they would go.
2 She tried to drink the air.
1 She sat still, like that, in that place, until she couldn’t anymore. And then she left.
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