Insanity I
(The Voices)

It is quiet.

The door shuts with a silent kuh-dacq.

Turn.

A hand on the lock. Touch.

Bang!
The voices curdle in their screams of reckless banter and
                                                                                                    shouting
matches them all
away!
                       AWAY!
Bang!
The doors open, agape in mawing gasps of attention
and ceasing not
to hear
                   to cringe
                                      to cry
                                                         to laugh!
A game! A game!
The same!
                   THE SAME!
Bang!

Feet pad softly.

Head bowed against the downpour.

Fingers
           feeling
                                                grasping
                                                           holding
                                                                     kneeling.

Eyes wide,
clear--

Bang!
A twisted maze of doors and fear
and here,
                   oh, here--
Black
with rushing winds and words and love and hate and
                                                                                           tears
                                                                                                      and
                                                                                                                 tears--
and
          RIVER…!
Bang!
No more!
                   (What more?)
We’re here not hear—
                                            LEAVE ME!
              Oh, we
are
              want
                         why,
                                    See?
Ha HA!
Can’t go in,    the padded walls of the skull!
You ours!
                         Watch  feel
                                                      reach     claw
                                                                                            breathe          gasp
Bang!

Sob

in the darkness.



Lights out.