Daniel

LUNCH BREAK EXCERPTS

(Man jumps over a brick wall and comes from behind me holding a bottle of cheap red wine)
“Hello Miss, may I sit with you?”
“uh.. yeah sure”
“lord have mercy, my heart has been shattered in a million pieces, in a way I would’ve never thought possible.”
“That’s awful”
“Wow, your eyes are wonderful”
“Thank you”
“You seem Welsh”
“Possibly. In part. I think my great-grandmother was Welsh”
“Ha! You ARE Welsh! Wow, I love Wales!”
“so you’ve been to Wales?”
(Kind of offended) “Of course I’ve been to Wales!!”
“so where are you from?”
” I AM ETHIOPIAN ISRAELI!”
“Ah that explains the American Accent then”
“HA! ETHIOPIAN ISRAELI! HOLY LIGHT REPRESENT! BROTHERS OF JERUSALEM. IRON! LION! ZION! You see everybody thinks Israelis are white but when we fell from the sky we landed in Ghana man! Ghana, Ethiopia, Israel Trinity. When the garden was built for Adam and Eve, it was erected in Mother Africa. I am the holy night!”
(Lifts up his shirt and shows some kind of holy inscriptions tattood on his chest)
“I’m gonna sing you a song. It is an old song, there have been many versions”
“Okay sure, go ahead”
(Locks eye contact and starts singing Berlin’s ‘Take my Breath away’)
“that was beautiful”
“Can I tell you something?”
“Sure”
“I could kiss you forever”
“Ha!”
“I would keep kissing you and kissing you and kissing you and kissing you and then when you’ll be saying “STOP STOP” I’ll say “Shut up, you’ve been kissed!” and I will keep kissing and kissing you until you realize that you have been kissed”
” uh.. ”
“Hah, you’re beautiful, your nature is beautiful.. Because why?.. because you tolerate me”
“well.. ”
“My heart has been shattered in a million pieces, in a way I would’ve never thought possible. When I came here from that other dimension, I had my daughters. All 3 million of them. But 1 million 444 of them were taken by him and them, they have sex with all my daughters all the time. How those gifts have been taken from me now. And he came up to me and he said “Lo and Behold!, I am Satan!” and I said “Fuck you man! I AM SATAN, Satan meaning – Soul Against the Abduction of Nature.” (He speaks low and slow with his face all squished up) “I.. am… Satan.. I.. am… Satan”
“…” (I hear his teeth grinding in his skull during the stillness)
“You are Welsh! When I went to Wales I went to see Arthur.. Ar for Righteous and Thur for Thor.. I took the sword and I went uh.. to… Uh What the fuck is that Wizard’s name? Merlin! Merlin! So I put the sword in the stone but the red dragon came from out of the cave and the Welsh are wonderful, they were all having sex and stuff – and he killed them all. They’re dead now. IRON. LION. ZION. I am God. I’m fucked up Man! 3 Billion years I been here, my heart is shattered. They try to oppress me! they don’t know! Fuck them man! What’s your name?”
“Korrin, and yours?”
“Daniel. I don’t like to use the name God any more. The word is tarnished”
“I agree, tis but a word. Anyway, I have to get back to work”
“Where do you work”
“Court house”
“Ohhh, do you think I’m a criminal?”
“I dunno. We’re all criminals”
“Let me ask you a question?”
“Shoot”
“Will you marry me?”
“No.”
“Aww, Why?”
“Ha!”
“You’re killing me!”
“You’re killing yourself!”
“Haha. Lion heart. IRON! LION! ZION!”
“Enjoy the sunshine Daniel”