NO PLAY <The curtain rises. Nikuko and American boy on stage.> Nikuko speaks (kabuki voice throughout): "I, Nikuko, do beg you to sew my eyes shut! Oh, I have not seen so much horror in world! But, I, Nikuko, want to experience total bliss! I want to do one-man sumo with fearsome opponents! I will fight me in blackness of invisible enemies! I will fight police throwing me in filthy cell! Do you like elimination of "a" "the" articles now such? Do wrap me in kimono-cloth, strangle in transparent tape! I will know ecstasy! Then I will bring "you" ecstasy! I will make "you" verb in my vagina! Do you like forbidden pleasure? Jewel-Lotus-Magatama-Pleasure? You will have rope through labia to pull my deep joy-suffering! You will have me, do you like Oriental face? Deep cast of eyes wide open for your english-teaching insert! Where you are from, they have automobiles! I so like to drive! Oh deep American boy, I will make you drive in my vagina! I do like overdrive-gear-shift-nitro-burn as well! I will do one-man sumo with fearsome opportunities!" <Gas floods the stage; American boy dies, vomiting. Nikuko staggers to her feet, takes off her mask. She is a woman of thirty-five. She is carrying a dagger. She turns and faces the audience. She screams "MU!" The curtain falls.> Next |
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