(The hurtling stillness)
The Bill Collecter
Bezaniya (The Runaway)
A Small Hill
A Door
Bezaniya (The Runaway)
The Bill Collecte (With No Left Eye)
THE BILL COLLECTER
Nothing is happening.
BEZANIYA
Something will happen.
(Pause)
THE BILL COLLECTER
I have to go.
BEZANIYA
Don’t.
THE BILL COLLECTER
They’re waiting for me.
BEZANIYA
But I waited too.
THE BILL COLLECTER
I am here. I was delayed. I was collecting payments. I got here. Now I have to carry on. I must be there on time.
BEZANIYA
Don’t.
THE BILL COLLECTER
I will return.
BEZANIYA
When? Where?
THE BILL COLLECTER
In a while. Somewhere round here.
(Pause)
Or a bit later. Somewhere else.
BEZANIYA
Where are you going?
THE BILL COLLECTER
I don’t ask about you.
BEZANIYA
Ask. I can’t wait any longer.
THE BILL COLLECTER
Don’t.
BEZANIYA
Don’t.
(Pause)
It grieves me, when there’s no you.
THE BILL COLLECTER
Stop saying things like that. Don’t say them to me. Not to me. Do you hear me? Don’t.
(Pause)
Just don’t.
(Pause)
Just don’t, I tell you.
BEZANIYA
Take it easy.
THE BILL COLLECTER
Are those your teeth?
BEZANIYA
Yes.
THE BILL COLLECTER
Take care of them.
(Pause)
Don’t fool around. Very little is left at the end.
BEZANIYA
You’re left.
THE BILL COLLECTER
Rabbits in front of headlights are left. Look. There is no end. There wasn’t even a beginning. Nothing happened. Some time has passed. A fast moving stillness. Forward. Or back. Or when? Yesterday. Later. Last year. Now. Tomorrow. Sometime ago. Many years from now. Centuries ago. A youth. Old age. A doomed autumn. An ordinary day. An ordinary life. One of those moments. Somewhere in the middle of bum fuck nowhere, on it’s way to the arse of the world.
(Pause)
An old tree. A bench in the park. A train station. A gaudy umbrella. Hot chocolate. A wide street. A striped shirt. A morning cigarette. A delight to the soul. Something horny. A tiny betrayal. The smell of a kitchen. Unpaid bills. Expensive perfumes. Queues. Nice places. A little joy. A good laugh. A circus. A monkey… No, no, a pig, imitating death. An explosion. Parts of other parts. Dead parts. Countries. Europes. A load of bollocks. A part of me. A part of you. I’m really fucked up. Look. I’m going to explode one of these days. I’ll settle over everything like dust.
(Pause)
Someone’s farting. Someone farts all the time.
BEZANIYA
Would you like some strawberries?
THE BILL COLLECTER
Something stinks.
BEZANIYA
Nothing stinks.
THE BILL COLLECTER
How the fuck not? Where did those strawberries come from?
BEZANIYA
They’re here.
THE BILL COLLECTER
There isn’t time.
BEZANIYA
Time is all there is. My time stands still when you’re not around. I give a lifetime for a one moment. It isn’t late. Don’t go anywhere. Don’t get anywhere. Stay with me. Give me your hand. See how my heart beats. Look at me. Say something funny. Let’s laugh. Like fools. If it’s been bad it will be better. We’ll tell each other something. Let’s have a secret. Tell me a secret.
THE BILL COLLECTER
I know a secret.
(Pause)
‘We are born of women torn apart over a grave.
(Pause)
They tore many women apart over their graves.
BEZANIYA
Take me somewhere. Anywhere. Siberia, Manchuria, Makedonska Kamenitsa…
(Pause)
If I stop dreaming about you, everything will cease to exist.
THE BILL COLLECTER
What will cease?
BEZANIYA
Everything that exists.
THE BILL COLLECTER
You don’t get it, do you?
(Pause)
Gaudy shirts, chocolates, trees, all kinds of shit…
BEZANIYA
Look.
THE BILL COLLECTER
What?
BEZANIYA
A falling star. Make a wish.
THE BILL COLLECTER
Don’t talk nonsense. There are no stars or wishes. Pure paranoia. Look. One fatal day my left eye offends me, so I take it out. Now I see very badly with my right. Look. You have two eyes. You see badly. Like mirages. You can’t see anything. You see other things. Things that don’t even exist. Look if you want to see pluck one out. Or damage them both. Or pluck them both out. Do something.
(Pause)
Come on. Do something.
(Pause)
Anything…
BEZANIYA
Take it easy.
THE BILL COLLECTER
Is this your hair?
BEZANIYA
Yes.
THE BILL COLLECTER
Look after it.
BEZANIYA
Say something simple.
THE BILL COLLECTER
I saw an angel.
BEZANIYA
Where?
THE BILL COLLECTER
Somewhere before. With six wings. I said to myself there should be two.
BEZANIYA
And?
THE BILL COLLECTER
It turned out not to be an angel. I said to myself, this is not an angel.
(Pause)
Are those your wings?
BEZANIYA
What wings?
THE BILL COLLECTER
It stinks here. Someone farts all the time.
BEZANIYA
Say something nice.
THE BILL COLLECTER
I’ve had a lot of women but with you it’s always the first time.
(Pause)
All roads in this world lead me back to you.
BEZANIYA
Give me your hand.
THE BILL COLLECTER
And then?
(Pause)
And?
BEZANIYA
Easy.
THE BILL COLLECTER
And?
BEZANIYA
Lean your head on my breasts.
THE BILL COLLECTER
And?
BEZANIYA
Close your eyes.
THE BILL COLLECTER
And?
BEZANIYA
Feel my skin.
THE BILL COLLECTER
And?
BEZANIYA
Embrace me.
THE BILL COLLECTER
And?
BEZANIYA
Put your hand between my legs.
THE BILL COLLECTER
And?
BEZANIYA
Tell me you love me.
(Pause)
THE BILL COLLECTER
I love you.
BEZANIYA
I love you.
(Pause)
THE BILL COLLECTER
And?
BEZANIYA
Something will happen by itself.
THE BILL COLLECTER
Something will happen. Now I’m going to explain to you what will happen. I’ll give you my hand. I’ll place my head on your breasts. I’ll close my eyes. I’ll feel your skin. I’ll embrace you. I’ll put my hand between your legs. I’ll tell you I love you. You are my angel. You’re everything to me.
(Pause)
I’ll look into your big eyes. You’ll put your hand on my limp dick. In spurts my shredded brains will pulsate with fresh blood. There’s a smell of wet pussy. A taste of blood. Hunger for another violence will convulse my body. We’ll unite in your womb. My sad cry will drown your joyful moans. I’ll break your glass body. I’ll poke out your big eyes. I’ll cram your throat with strawberries. I’ll pulverise your teeth. I’ll crush your head. I’ll rip out your heart with my bare hands. I’ll inject new life into your corpse. I’ll tear you apart over your grave. That’s all there is left. There’s no time for anything else.
AND SO IT HAPPENS
WINGS BREAK
A STAR FALLS