Suffixes

(Whiteness. A bewildered and confused Man on a stage. Quiet rumblings. Thumping.)

A Man
What?

(Another Man. The same Man, but different.)

Other Man
Hello.

Man
Hi?

Other Man
Yes. Hello. Hi.

Man
Where are we?

Other Man
Everywhere there is.

Man
Who are you?

Other Man
Lost.

Man
Who am I?

Other Man
Lost as well, I imagine.

Man
How long have you been here?

Other Man
Just as long as you.

Man
But you seem to know more.

Other Man
I haven’t told you anything.

Man
Yes, you have.

Other Man
Well, I don’t know anything?

Man
But?

Other Man
Expect that we’re going to die.

Man
What?

Other Man
Die. We’re going to die.

Man
Die?

Other Man
Yes.

Man
Soon?

Other Man
Yes.

Man
But I just got here.

Other Man
Where’s here?

Man
I don’t know.

Other Man
Who am I?

Man
Lost.

Other Man
We are about to die.

Man
Did I ever live?

Other Man
Do you want to die?

Man
No.

Other Man
You lived.

Man
Why do we die?

Other Man
Because it ends.

Man
Because it ends?

Other Man
Because IT ends.

Man
Oh.

Other Man
Everything ends.

Man
I’m not ready yet. I just got here.

Other Man
Everything ends. It’s all so pretty?…

Man
Not fucking ready. I don’t want to stop.

Other Man
Look at how it all flows downwards…

Man
I DON’T WANT TO DIE.

Other Man
Closer and closer to the end.

Man
No end. No End.

Other Man
It will stop.

Man
What will?

Other Man
It.

Man
Oh.

Other Man
We’re not very good, you know.

Man
We’re the same.

Other Man
What do people do before they die?

Man
They live.

Other Man
Did we live?

Man
We must have. We’re dying.

Other Man
Do we get last words?

Man
That’s all we ever were.

(Fade)