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Chapters (8)
  1. Cover Page
  2. SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS
  3. SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS
  4. OUT OF JOINT AUTUMN TOUR 1999
  5. Out of Joint’s Productions
  6. SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS
  7. OUT OF JOINT EDUCATION
  8. Scene One

Tim And I say I don’t want to.

Victor But why? The pills are keeping you alive.

Tim But I’m not going to take the pills.

Victor But I want you to. I want you to take them for me.

Tim Are you taking this seriously?

Victor No, I’m a crazy guy.

Tim I’ve told you, you take this seriously, you’re out.

Victor I can’t help this … I feel… I want you to get better. I want you to be with me.

Tim That’s not why I downloaded you. I didn’t download you because of that. I downloaded you because you wear little shorts and you gyrate to trash. Because you are trash.

Victor I like trash.

Tim You like me because I’m trash.

Victor This is different. This is caring about you and wanting you to … please. Gome on. Please. In my country –

Tim Which I paid for you to leave.

Victor I know.

Tim Which you say you’re never going back to.

Victor In my country which I’m never going back to.

Tim Because they don’t make trash like we make trash.

Victor In my country, you would not have this medicine. Sure, if you were boyfriend of mafia-boss then mafia-boss would pay for medicine. But if you were boyfriend of go-go dancer…

Tim If they had go-go dancers.

Victor There are plenty of go-go dancers now. More go-go dancers than factory workers. Nobody ever pays factory workers. So, if you can go-go, you go-go. But if you were boyfriend of go-go dancer then this medicine would cost… go-go dancer dances for ten years to pay for one year of this medicine.

Tim I’d get through an army of go-gos.

Victor So, this medicine is no solution for people in my country. And this is worse. This is much worse. To know there is something that could save them but which they can’t have.

Tim I don’t… I envy you know …

Enter Nadia.

Nadia Hello.

Tim How did you know I was here?

Nadia Well, Victor told me. I came straight over,

Tim Why did you do that?

Victor I was upset. Nadia called when I was upset and I told Nadia.

Tim I didn’t want you to tell anyone.

Victor I know that.

Nadia I wanted to be here. I wanted to see you.

Tim But I don’t want you to see me like this.

Nadia It’s alright.

Tim I don’t want people to see me ill.

Victor Then take your pills.

Tim Fuck off. Fuck off.

Victor He won’t take his pills.

Nadia That’s not right.

Victor Make him take his pills.

Nadia Why aren’t you taking your pills?

Tim Because I don’t want to.

Nadia But you’re doing so well. They’re brilliant these pills. They’re what you’ve been waiting for. This is … this is a happy ending. You told me that. So …

Tim I hate it. I hate being well. I can’t do it.