Bi-polar taking two

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4:30 am on a moonless night

midgard: again comes the subject on multiple faces inside a one faceted heart.
{sighs and shakes head}

bien: now there is this guy and there is this gal, there is this ex and a potential prey.
{grins} How many really are there? {looks up and rolls eyes}

victor: Who the hell knows and who is counting anyway?

bien: that only the heart would know. {looks at the floor}

teng: tang na! you're starting to sound like midi there.
{spins the ashtray}

bien: you smoke too much.

teng: ikaw rin, gago!
{flicks the cigarette, an ember falls on the floor}

victor: watch your fucking mouth and use the ashtray!
that's what it's for.

teng: bulag ka? it's on spin cycle.

midgard: and how's the dry spell? you coping up there well?

teng: been bone dry for a year. thanks for asking. may bopis pa?

bien: bottom container, second shelf. what do you mean had been?

{gets up} i'll heat it up. talk to him guys.

midgard: had been implies he's ended the dry spell. when?

teng: two days ago. itinuro mo pa ikaw din pala kukuha.

midgard: two days ago? bien likes doing that.

bien: it means he did it but he's already started counting days...
and that ... he hasn't quit quitting.

teng: one's just a sip and then ... to celebrate {goes to the rice
cooker and lifts the lid} tang 'na alang kanin!

bien: counting bottles too. I would have been disappointed but i know how it feels.

midgard: not counting bottles but counting drinks.
a sip and to celebrate means one's in a glass and the others are in bottles.

victor: others? sounds fun! more than one is always good.

teng: shut up! you don't even know how to count. but it was, di gaya ng dati.

victor: i said i don't count.

teng: oo nga you don't count. {laughs}

bien: you do count Mr. Victor. really he does.

midgard: everybody's talking double meaning tonight.

teng: no problem with you and bien there you're both psychics anyway

ben: speaking of problems...

midgard: ah the mute speaks

teng: down to business then? when ben starts talking things better
start moving.

victor: so you're a psychic too!

teng: dick!

ben: let's not start calling each other names, ok? at least... no new ones.

midgard: no we're not just about to do that.

ben: ok so back to the heart of the matter

bien: heart not hearts?

midgard: inside the heart is the plurality. heart will do.

victor: I'm i trouble...

ben: we know, we all are.

teng: can't rise to the occasion vic? {grins and snorts} pakalalaki ka nga!

bien: i think that's kinda my fault.

midgard: we all have our fingers in the salad bowl

teng: jorms doesn't

midgard: and where is he anyway?

bien: can't you guess? asleep... {smiles broadly}

ben: out like a light. zapped.

teng: you enjoy zapping him!

bien: one whole tab and we can all talk in peace.

midgard: peace bought by a pill

teng: why'd yah guys take care of him at all?

ben: because

bien: i still love him just the same

teng: and don't you just love everybody? puss!

victor: i love everybody.

midgard: shut your mouth!

ben: the unromantic words of a poet

midgard: he will be the death of me

bien: they're just teasing vic. we love you.

victor: pussy!

teng: puss not pussy!

victor: same thing to me.

teng: you and bien's always been together lately...

midgard: vic always tags along with everybody else in here,
even with jorms, doesn't even matter if he is asleep

victor: and you just don't have the guts you dickless shit!

ben: but vic's grown a heart in spite of his vocabulary. rubbed off from bien.

midgard: some of us just don't have the guts to go in one way streets.

teng: another blind person bouncing off walls. mahal ka rin nya ulol!

bien: which one does? who?

midgard: a mindreader with a blank screen?

ben: let's just get on with it.

victor: we are already doing it. we are on it.

teng: can't you hear what everybody's saying?

ben: sorry - spaced out a bit

midgard: you think too much about everything and of everybody

ben: look who's talking. you're the one not getting enough sleep

teng: brain on hyperdrive and overdrive or override?

ben: a multiple choice laced with sarcasm?

victor: dripping with it baby, dripping with it.

midgard: aptly said - no harm taken though.

victor: but lace i love lace!

bien: what's bugging you love?

teng: oh bugs? bitten by a love bug?

midgard: not by it but by the person

teng: oh bugs! bugs ok now?

bien: my fault again then. strange, bugging is the word.

midgard: the rebirth of a psychic. right bugging is the word.

teng: poets bad parrots make. ok lang yun boy, hospital visit.
bugs' a friend.

vicotr: a good friend.

bien: either I smother you or zap you, you pick prick! taken one down already.

teng: so, aside from vince, what's eating gilbert grape?

bien: another psychic. and i thought you were very much grounded vicente.

midgard: a practical mind gone to ashes.

teng: a realist. rebirthing and ashes.. phoenix on the rise?

ben: yes that too. sorry guys Iv've been meaning to tell yah...

teng: as if we don't already know yet.

midgard: don't worry ben. I think we all kow about it.

ben: just waiting for the right time to say it. there was no need to...

midgard: ... it seems... teng?

teng: a premonition. I feel things too.

victor: feel things

bien: the cat is out of the bag. ben, don't worry. you took good care of us.
he would want you to stay you know...

midgard: time for a change it is not. he told you first. that's a good sign.


ben: I'm not so sure he told me first

teng: fuck it, it wasn't a warning!

victor: i love cat.

bien: we know! I'll drill a hole through your head.

teng: kala ko he's all heart

midgard: he is, just trying to save all of us. i love you bien. puss {let's air kisses fly}

ben: what's come upon us? double meanings double edged swords.
lot of names came out tonight. thank God, no song lyircs.

midgard: hard doing it without pronouns when referring to everybody else.

teng: hard but fun. sino kaya nagumpisa nun. pakulo mo yun mid.

victor: hard. i like hard. will i ever be again?

bien: we both know you will. I'm here so don't fret.
and oh lot's of song lyrics there are.

victor: no fret, no fuss, no fuzz, I'm in the same page.
ben's really not listening, huh.

teng: what have you done to this fucker? he has grown a heart!

midgard: now all he needs is a brain

victor: i hate brain

ben: you light up my life guys { gets up and stretches}

teng: all in the same page different books

midgard: welcome to the grasshopper's library

Jorms: hi guys!

bien: Hi Jorms, love!

Jorms: ah a regular wizard of OZ...

midgard: the brainless dick, puss in boots, the practical tin man...

teng: and the cowardly bard!

jorms: roll call ok?

victor: let's see, a dead bird, a resurrected cat, a peach
a litter bug... is gilbert grape a name?

jorms: No, and peach? lace?... i can hear you guys in my sleep.
i'm taking a walk. wait ... and drip?

midgard: stars out tonight? {inspects nails} drip is peach

jorms: nope, stargarzer fish is.

teng: uranoscopidae. better hurry sun's almost up.

victor: I'm still not getting any...

teng: uhm, vince is back.

jorms: I know. I was the one who called him back.

ben: and all these time bien and I have been zapping you! {smirks}

bien: oh I love you guys. It's gonna be a party. {clasps both hands}

ben: it already is. wait up we're all coming with you.
guys we're adjourned. {leans back}

{vince gets up from the couch, goes through the door}


vince: I love this life. {walks towards the rosy fingers of dawn}

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bi-polar taking two: a monologue

[*disclaimer - true characters in a multiple personality disorder do not hold conferences.
they just leave each other offline messages. yes, they all have different accounts.
all the characters here are just apellations with appendages except for victor who is the reverse
but then again victor is also a man]

midgard: I love this present incarnation of flesh
bien: I love the color flesh
victor: I love flesh
teng: this work's done. back to work now.
ben: may bopis pa
victor: I don't do bopis
midgard: shut him up
ben: vince will give him a helping hand

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