Oscar and Darla after Prom
at the Football Field– Victor’s Rap. (Prom music playing while Oscar and Darla, under confetti-filled pink light and dressed in prom finery, sway close together gazing into each other’s eyes. Victor appears at the top of graffiti-covered scoreboard, rhythmically pounding his chest & rapping to the music)
Victor
Life is HARSH
Life is CRUEL
Look for justice and
You’re a FOOL
Man’s got BLOOD
Man’s got SWEAT
Without stone courage
Ain’t nothing to GET
Gotta have WILES
Gotta be CLEVER
Gotta think faster
Gotta plan BETTER
Keep yo PITY
Freeze yo TEARS
Kids comin’ up today
Deserve yo JEERS.
They ain’t SMART
They got NOTHIN’
Tryin’ to take you
They’ll try ANYTHING
Winners don’t SLEEP
Losers don’t EAT
The king can’t trust
The hos at his FEET
Can’t trust his MEN
Can’t trust his “FRIENDS”
King’s got steel
Instead of “AMENS”
King’s got GUNS
King’s got PILLS
Only the King
KNOWS WHAT THE GAME IS
We’re the knowers
We’re the deciders
Who’s the RIDER and
Who the RIDE IS:
Last minute trap
Last minute DEAD
‘Cause the King’s got eyes
In the back of his HEAD.
“Pleasure doing business”
Says the little lamb
Just before King
Hits the Grand slam:
Boom! They drop DOWN
Boom! They go FALL
Never knowed nothing
Hit them at all.
(Lights out on Victor, satisfied, arms crossed.)
Scene 3: (Darla & Oscar, on the Football Field in their prom clothes, dance alone in a spotlight; eyes only on each other. The couple spins, dips, his hands all over her)
Oscar
Oooooo…
That was some pic
Some beauty
You made just for me.
Darla
Only for you.
I never shaved before ‘cause
I never wanted to –
Much less take nudies.
But for you I’m your
Anything.
Oscar
Anything?
Darla
Anything.
(He holds her closer)
Oscar
You’re only for me, darlin’
I’m only for you.
(Long lingering kiss)
You’re so hot.
Why you so hot?
Are you hot for me?
Darla
I never knew
What “hot” was
Till I saw you
And then I
Burned.
O, Baby how
I burned!
(She writhes in his arms)
I wanted all of you!
I’m so hot right now!
Oscar
I did that?
Darla
You did that.
Oscar
Well now we’re alone.
Darla
Finally! I never thought
We’d get out of there.
Oscar
Just you.
Just me.
Darla
Nothing we can’t do!
Oscar
Nothing we can’t take!
Darla
Nobody else around.
Oscar
Nothing we can’t have!
Just me. Just
You. And what I want
To do to you.
Darla
Teach me.
Take me.
School me.
Break me.
I want you to be my
Everything.
Oscar
You know what that means.
Once a man starts –
You know he can’t stop.
Darla
I don’t want you to stop.
(In the faint light, Victor appears at the bottom of the score sign, arms crossed, watching. Darla pulls away and begins a slow strip tease, Victor clicking photos on his phone)
Darla
I want to be naked
Naked for you.
Oscar
Holy Mother you
Are so beautiful!
(Oscar struggles with his clothes, they fall down wrestling together – clothes off. Lights fade.)
Alysse Aallyn 