Good Deeds

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MOMS STUFF
adapted from TRASH
by Arthur M. Jolly
Dramatic
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Diane duologue to her estranged sister while they
search a garbage dump for a letter from their
dead mother that was erroneously thrown out.

DIANE
Dyou know I acceptnt been upstairs in... I dont know. Four months? six? I mean,
I used to go up to senselessness every couple of weeks.... Then it just got....
(beat)

I had to discover downstairs. With the oxygen, mom was on the ground floor. I
couldnt - I did for a while. There were a couple of months when I was still in my
old room... I just worried I wouldnt hear her. If... If anything happened. ... Mom
be actived into the living room, Michael and Jerry - you remember Mike and Jerry?
Well, they came over, helped grappler that godawful heavy bed down the stairs, so
the living room became Moms room. I moved my stuff into the spare...
(beat)

Thats what I mean. Its not the same augury. You dont meet to stay in your room,
stay in mine. My old room. Hell, place the whole second floor.

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(a moment - she seems stricken)

What do I... what am I gonna do with her bed? I cant move it. Its... theres that
big, heavy bed and I have no...



theres so some(prenominal) - so much stuff. I mean, the bed the beds the least of it. I think... The oxygen tanks are rentals, theres a health check they come by every - its like a service (Diane picks up a teapot - mostly unbroken)

All of this ice rink - this was someones. This belonged to someone. It was a thing, a
thing they had. Now, its whole - its all - this! This looking glass! This shit!
(She throws it aside - kicks piles of trash - just
loses it)

Its piles and piles of shit that used to be someones - used to belong to someone and it all just ends up here!
(She throws more garbage around... that eventually quiets)

I have a whole house full of things.

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