CHASE Would you rather share your poetry or have another share with you?
CLAUDELEAN You agree that conversation is art.
CHASE It isn’t often enough. Mostly it’s merciless.
A few times it’s a miracle.
CLAUDELEAN Well, I consider myself to be revealing.
CHASE You shouldn’t blame anyone.
CLAUDELEAN To a fault. Or I use to be.
CHASE Used.
CLAUDELEAN I was open, too open.
CHASE And now?
CLAUDELEAN Sadly enough, I’ve learned.
CHASE Who taught you?
CLAUDELEAN No one sees beauty in what’s available.
CHASE Being alone won’t help either.
CLAUDELEAN There has to be some sort of participation.
CHASE A director and his actor.
Oh what am I talking about?
CLAUDELEAN You’re right. That’s not an example.
CHASE Not even close.
But you get what I’m saying.
CLAUDELEAN A couple revealing how they look.
CHASE That’s art, you think?
CLAUDELEAN Sure, I think.
I mean it’s an idea.
I just didn’t explain it very well.
CHASE It’s difficult to share.
CLAUDELEAN Rare.
It’s rare to have someone that’ll listen.
CHASE She can’t.
CLAUDELEAN He can’t become who he is but, I guess.
What’s impossible or, okay.
CHASE Feels impossible?
CLAUDELEAN That, too.
Is having that person and finding that he can.
CHASE Find you, too.
CLAUDELEAN Well, he can.
But that he can do that for you, too.
CHASE Find you?
CLAUDELEAN Well yes.
But I was answering you.
CHASE Oh then repeat it.
CLAUDELEAN What I was saying?
CHASE I think you wanted to remember.
CLAUDELEAN The future?
That wasn’t what it was about.
CHASE No that’s true. You were holding on.
CLAUDELEAN Because I must have been waiting.
CHASE Yes, you get so strange when you do.
CLAUDELEAN Just quiet.
CHASE No, really, you should have heard it.
CLAUDELEAN What was I saying?
CHASE First, let me think about it.
CLAUDELEAN Never mind.
Don’t tell me.
CHASE Hold on.
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