Thursday, September 28, 2017

Monologue Mania Day # 1323 Face-Off by Janet S. Tiger (c) Sept. 28, 2017

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Monologue Mania Day # 1323 Face-Off by Janet S. Tiger (c) Sept. 28, 2017    

                                                          Face-Off
                                          by Janet S. Tiger  (c) 2017 all rights reserved     
                                                            tigerteam1@gmail.com   
       
       (Woman enters, she is well-dressed, but has on old dirty sneakers.  I hear a Spanish accent, but it can be slight)

Thank you, it is not easy to look nice right now, but I see you notice my shoes.  Not so nice.
But they are very necessary now, when I go through the mess.....with everything else, I cannot afford to get hurt now.  You see, our hospital was damaged, too, in the earthquake.  They put up tents, and very brave people go in to get out the supplies, but....that is what happens.

      (She indicates her face)

My make-up?  Yes, I always carry it with me, as long as I have a mirror and light, I can fix up my face.  Some of the people here, they do not care any more.  That is not good.

We have to have our face on, like armor to protect us.

It is all we have left.

Especially when......(sighs)  especially when the face of our house is gone.  It was dark, and we felt the bed shaking, and it sounded as if the earth was crying out, then screaming.....my husband says we need to go into the street, so we go, and we watch.....

My house, we built it when no others were around.  Three stories I wanted.  So I could see everything.  Then the other houses were built, so all I got to see then, were other houses!

But no more.  A lot of those houses...(sighs, closes eyes)....my house.....done.  Too expensive to repair, too expensive to make safe from the earthquakes.

They come around to help us, from the government, they say it is not safe.  Everyone can see it is not safe!  Who needs the government to tell us?

But no one notices, your house is like the face you put on to the world.  Maybe inside, it is not perfect, perhaps there are problems with the color of the paint, or maybe you don't like the sofa, but outside, you make sure it looks nice. 

And when that is gone.....what do you do?  It's just a house..... the earthquake - or the hurricane - or the fire - nature doesn't care about what things look like.....

We are lucky, we were not hurt, others died, others had family die and the house gone, too.

We are lucky, we have friends we stay with, but for how long?

So I take my face, and make it up to look happy, but.....it is not easy, when your face is off.....

       (She exits but the work is not done - This is for all those affected by the recent hurricanes and earthquakes - to help, there are several organizations which are supporting these people - please consider aiding them.  For a good starting point click here)
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