Monday, July 1, 2013

"Butch Gardens, Episode 7" by Mocha Tchokha Rose

            (The most recently crashed plane, teetering atop the first two, starts to jiggle.)

FOOFEE
They’re coming out---

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
Let’s hide, Foofee.  I don’t want to meet new people.

            (They hide in the woman-eating plant.  The door of the plane pops on its hinge
            and slowly begins to rise.  Two little gray-haired ladies, GEORGETTE and
            GRACE, hobble out.)

GEORGETTE
Oh, Grace . . .

GRACE
This doesn’t look like Orlando . . .

GEORGETTE
Oh, no; not Orlando; no . . .

GRACE
Hello?  Is anyone here?

GEORGETTE
That’s right.  Help me down.

            (GRACE lends a hand to GEORGETTE.)

GRACE
How’s your hip?

GEORGETTE
Thank goodness for Boniva.

GRACE
            (Calling out)
Is anyone here?

GEORGETTE
Hello?  We’re two little old ladies from Tallahassee---

GRACE
            (Overlapping) 
Two little queer ladies from Tallahassee.  Hello?

GEORGETTE
On our way to Orlando---

GRACE
Indialantic, really---

GEORGETTE
But no one knows where that is---

GRACE
Two little queer ladies, on our way from Tallahassee to Indialantic---

GEORGETTE
But Grace doesn’t know how to fly the plane.  I don’t fault her.

GRACE
And now we’re lost.  Hello?

GEORGETTE
Hello?

            (Struggling from the bushes.)

                 GEORGETTE (Continued)
            (Motioning)
I hear something other there.

            END OF EPISODE 7.