“ACT 2 - “WAFFE” WHEREIN YOU ARE FURY, YOU ARE DEATH, YOU’VE GOT A HELL OF A BLOODY NOSE, LINE: He moves like he’s waiting for somebody to start a fight. He is. He’s been waiting all his life and usually it’s paid off with loose teeth and broken bones. You could ask him why and he wouldn’t know and he’d shrug like there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s hard to believe it when he bleeds red because he tastes like ichor, he tastes like gold and gold and gold and gold and gold, he tastes like sin but the kind of sin that’s divine. LINE: What a vicious bastard he is, with his fire. With his drugs. With his guns, and knives, and fists, and teeth. He’s never more dangerous than when he smiles. Not to anyone else, no, not dangerous to anyone else. Just himself. LINE: Consider: he corners you in the garage, drops to his knees hard- layering bruises on bruises. Looks up at you like you’re the god here and he’s going to turn ichor to blood with his teeth and tongue and fingernails; drag you down to his level and keep you there. You attempt to point out the garage is not private. He laughs hot over your hip and says “I know.” Your breath stutters in your chest. LINE: Young Adonis, your hands are shaking around that crowbar. Young Adonis, you look at yourself in the grimy motel mirror and choke on it. Your reflection reaches out but his fingers are cold and hard. You will never escape your own self-love, Adonis- is it self-love? Is it the tired, snarling grandmother, self-preservation? Is it nothing but fear? Has it always been nothing but fear, all this time? Young Adonis, the line you are treading is not that thin. You stand hangdog and flatfooted in the middle of this line like you stand in the middle of the highway and wait for roadkill. LINE: And here’s the truth: he’s nothing but soft and bright. He’s nothing but a vibrating, pliant mess you press into the floor until he sprawls loose below you and looks up at you like you’re the god here and you’re going to turn blood to ichor with fingernails and tongue and teeth. ACT 2 END (WEAPON)”
— “WAFFE” // COPPER HEART SILVER LIVER GOLDEN TONGUE // ADRIAN BOUVIER
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