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Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves

from Waiting for Amanda by Love Chaos

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ACT THREE (ANOTHER SATURDAY).

The scene is as it was at the start of day one. Dicky is drinking his bottled water as people parade in front of him while they laugh, talk and listen to music. That ends when Richard once again enters with his wagon loaded with the same stuff as before.

R.K.
Happy Saturday, Dicky! Looks like another beautiful day. Breathe that air. (taking a deep breath, he coughs) A little smoggy, but still isn’t it good to be alive? (as he sets up his things) So how did the audition go?

D.G.
Okay. But they said I wasn’t tall enough for the part.

R.K.
Have you talked to Amanda lately?

D.G.
No. But she knows I’m here. I heard she had a big argument with Stanko. They split up. But now she’s back with him.

R.K.
So you think there’s still hope for you?

D.G.
Well, I don’t think their relationship will last. His mother doesn’t like Amanda because Amanda’s not Jewish.

R.K.
And she wants her son to marry a Jew?

D.G.
Of course.

R.K.
You’re Persian, right?

D.G.
Yeah, I’m from Iranian descent.

R.K.
Amanda’s not Iranian?

D.G.
No. She’s as white can be.

R.K.
Would your parents have a problem with your marrying Amanda?

D.G.
Actually … maybe at first … but eventually they’d see things my way. Well, I’m not sure about my father, but I’m pretty sure about my mother. She wants me to be happy – to be with someone I love who loves me.

R.K.
So you’d marry Amanda to have children, right?

D.G.
If that’s what Amanda wanted. For me, marriage is the ultimate commitment to show my love. To give up my freedom is no little thing. Marriage doesn’t need to be about having children.

R.K.
If you get married, you should have children.

D.G.
Like you and your Amanda?

R.K.
Well, we would have if we could have.

D.G.
Your Amanda was too old to have children. So, according to your beliefs, you didn’t need to get married.

R.K.
But I wanted God to bless our love.

D.G.
Don’t you think God blesses everyone who loves another person? Whether they’re married or not.

R.K.
Marriage is special. It helps the love to grow.

D.G.
So why do so many get divorced? By the way, Richard, you never really explained why Amanda left you. She enjoyed having sex with you.

R.K.
That’s not everything.

D.G.
Right. You never hurt her, did you?

R.K.
There was … the accident.

D.G.
Accident? You never told me about an accident.

R.K.
(getting up) I don’t feel too good.

D.G.
Richard, you’d never hurt someone you loved?

R.K.
Not on purpose. It was an accident. I was parking the car. I didn’t expect her to walk in front … I meant to go in reverse … but I was upset. We had just had an argument while grocery shopping … about what to buy for dinner. She wanted something that the Pope was against our buying. Because that would give money to bad people.

D.G.
So you were upset she bought it anyway?

R.K.
Yes. But it was an accident. I hit the brake right away. Still she ended up going to the hospital. I told her I was sorry.

D.G.
But she was angry at you.

R.K.
More like scared of me. I went to the hospital with her favorite flowers and chocolate. I kept telling her I was sorry, Sorry, SORRY. I promised that it would never, NEVER happen again. But she kept looking at me … with fear in her eyes.

D.G.
Did she go back to live with you?

R.K.
Just for a day. When I came home from work, she had packed all her things and was gone. I got a call from one of her sons from her first marriage. Bret said that Amanda had decided to move in with him and his family. I wanted to speak to her, but he said she didn’t want to speak to me, that it was over.

D.G.
But you didn’t give up.

R.K.
I kept calling for a long time. But I could never get her to speak to me. Then one day her other son called me. Jasper said Amanda had died. At first I was devastated. If only I could have had a chance to talk to her … at least one more time.

D.G.
(walking over to Richard) Richard, I don’t understand. All these weeks you’ve been coming here, waiting for Amanda. And you knew she was dead?

R.K.
She wasn’t dead. Jasper just told me that to make me stop calling.

D.G.
How do you know?

R.K.
I got suspicious when Bret and Jasper didn’t invite me to Amanda’s funeral. They said their mother was being buried in her home state of Massachusetts.

D.G.
Did they say where in Massachusetts?

R.K.
Yes. But I couldn’t afford to go.

D.G.
So maybe they weren’t lying.

R.K.
I thought that … for a while … then Jasper called me a few months ago. He admitted that they had lied. That Amanda was still alive. She had moved to Massachusetts, but now she was coming back to California and she wanted to get back with me.

D.G.
So she called you? To say she was coming back?

R.K.
Not yet.



D.G.
Not yet?! Richard, have you heard from Amanda even once since her sons told you she died?

R.K.
No. But Jasper said she wanted to surprise me. As a penance for hurting her, I had to wait for her here, he said. They would tell her where to find me when she got back to L.A.

D.G.
But you’ve been waiting for so long. Maybe Jasper misled you because he wanted you to suffer for hurting his mother. Maybe she really is dead. You can’t go on like this forever. Suffering on the beach.

R.K.
(sitting down) Maybe … I want to suffer. (sitting down he starts crying) Dicky, life’s been awful without her.

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from Waiting for Amanda, released January 17, 2015

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Love Chaos Los Angeles, California

Love Chaos (Derek Hunter) has released 9 albums on Bandcamp:

- Black
- Love and Death
- E.I.E.
- Black Light, White Dark
- Life
- Waiting for Amanda
- Surrealist Saints
- Major Arcana
- The Light and the Dark

He has also written and published 5 books.

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