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Question 1

Of all of us the most - at least in the eyes of this so-called world - the most successful of us

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So - a pool
Did she mean to impress? Was it for a show?
No. I can’t think. No. Because she’s

Question 3

She’s good. She’s nice. She has integrity. Her roots.

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And she has a pool now - its fantastic fantastic fantastic fantastic

Question 4

We adore her

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We adore her. We all absolutely adore her.

Question 5

And now she has the pool. The poooooooooool

Answer 5

First seen in attachments. A Christmas attachment. Open the attachment for a PDF of my new pool.
I open with caution. I have a fear of viruses.
Her pool

Question 6

And there’s a PDF

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(stand in a line DS)

Question 7

Lets share it with her

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And we email her back. Were coming
Were all coming

Question 8

Were all getting on a plane and coming over to share the pool with you

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And she E’s back. Fantastic fantastic fantastic

Question 9

There’s fundraising there’s-

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There’s Sally in the hospice

Question 10

Sally in that fucking hospice

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Its got into her bones now, its eaten through her bones now, its eaten through her body and now that little evil C is eating into her bones - its got a taste of marrow - and she lies there and she says:

Question 11

But that’s just to humour us. Nobody believes that

Answer 11

(Move chair into funeral setting)
And Sally turns green and Sally turns grey and there’s a drip drip drip stuck everywhere and nurses and nuns and we organize a rota because life must go on with its exhibitions and its fund-raising and we take it in turns until we all rush there one night and some of us make it and some of us don’t and that’s Sally done for.

Question 12

You were all amazing for looking after.

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I’m so guilty

Question 13

And were

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no no no no no

Question 14

But I felt did you feel, listen I felt

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this is wrong I know this is wrong

Question 15

but I felt maybe its only -

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did anyone else feel?

Question 16

I think that should be honoured, you know?

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If you know what I’m saying?

Question 17

I want to scream at her

Answer 17

God
Yes, just open my lungs and scream at her. This is your doing, you did this. You see this cheap horrible wooden casket with our friend Sally in it? You did that. That was you.

Question 18

God

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It was you who killed Sally

Question 19

You see, what bad people

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We are all bad people, it needn’t be that way of course.

Question 20

No it needn’t

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If only we’d use our Art for some good. But instead we harbour

Question 21

And I think maybe we have always harboured, you know right since the hovel, harboured

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Now we reflect…
Isn’t that strange? All the time she was amongst us as a friend, all that time and yet really we harboured the most awful…well I suppose hatred

Question 22

Murderous hatred

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would be the only word

Question 23

We must embrace her

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we must love her

Question 24

despite all this grandeur she’s still…

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naughty naughty naughty

Question 25

hanging a little in the wind

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and some of us cry and some of us laugh but were al moved by the sheer naked beauty of it

Question 26

and then

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(behind original chair) Some of us thought we heard the splash

Question 27

you do the work

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But we didn't hear the splash

Question 28

There was

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The crack

Question 29

Then there was silence

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Then there was her groan

Question 30

no more of God or angel

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We don't speak. We don't look at each other. We're too together now to need to look or speak to each other at all.

Question 31

we are artists

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no we're people

Question 32

we wanted to feel what she was feeling

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share the pain

Question 33

But we could have felt something

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A life without empathy is...

Question 34

She passed from consciousness

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And the great absent thing is lying at our feet and we're thinking This is right

Question 35

For Sally, for Ray, for us, this had to be

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You see, you flew

Question 36

yes

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you reached out your wings and you flew above us

Question 37

and that's okay

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you tried and congratulations for trying

Question 38

and that hurts doesn't it?

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I understand. That hurts

Question 39

What better way to patronise you back than care for this mangled, crippled body?

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And her face. You would have thought- locked into a grimace of pain, intense emotion. But no - her face on top of that crunched-up body her face was as absent as it had ever been. And if I could have drilled into her skull

Question 40

or ripped it off

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just to know what thoughts and feelings went through her head then, I would. I swear to God, I would