the_merry_anticipators
epitome of incomprehensibility A half_asleep_thoughts play. Sort of like half_asleep_thoughts dialogue. All half_asleep_thoughts belong to the minds of their thinkers.

Scene 1: Planning for Airplanes

(raze sits at the edge of the stage, narrating as nr walks on)

raze: today is the best day of her life, because she's planning for airplanes.

nr: pilot pipe dreams. and if you won't be a pilot... leave me alone.

raze (looking surprised): i'm not planning on jumpers again.

nr: internal jumping around with people?

raze (shakes head): i get paid to carry an extra heart inside me.

nr (shrugs): that’s just a coronated system.

Scene 2: Loosie-Doosies, or The Attack of the Vanilla Pudding

(nr stands at the front, holding a microphone as if she's making an announcment to a school assembly)

nr: this year, they have years called loosie-doosies.

(past rushes in)

past (breathless): there's been an affinity bouncing in my mind for years, but this morning it clicked: baby poo smells like vanilla pudding.

(rushes away, pursued by flying vanilla pudding)

raze (nodding): you'll make a good run. i'll give you five minutes.

(he waits five seconds)

raze (stands up and shakes his fist at the flying pudding): unfit paste from above!

nr (also addressing the pudding): fuck you, mr. asshole and your returns. you know who i am.

raze (as the last of the pudding departs from sight): come to the seven-degree unreleased outhouse!

(tender_square enters)

tender_square (gravely): the thoughts from these seven gives blindness.

raze (loftily): twenty-five percent of whatever the full number is comes out to seventeen exactly.

nr: 1... 2... 3... MATH!

(a calculator appears in her hands)

nr: one-two... one-two. more power to the book of one.

raze: calculated, tunnelated ... are you sure?

tender_square (gazes at the calculator with reverence): it gave me expansiveness. it gave me rubying.

raze (nods): ruby dart. (looks sadly at the machine and says, voice low) could have been a decent diamond if you would have been a farm or farmer.
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nr i tried reading my parts for this and couldn't stop laughing.

this is amazing.
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raze can i second that?

i've noticed i have this way of laughing when something really delights me. my mouth drops open, but no sound comes out. it's like a smile that's too severe to know what to do with itself.

that happened the whole time i was reading this.
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