The Plays
First Love [sample]
by Charles L. Mee
EDITH
Shove up.
HAROLD [awakened from sleeping—still half-asleep, disoriented]
What?
EDITH
Shove up I said shove up.
HAROLD
What what?
EDITH
I want to sit down here.
HAROLD
Goddam it to hell, this is my God Damn bench.
Can't you see I am sleeping here?
EDITH
This is not your God Damn bench.
This is a common bench
and I said:
[shrieking]
shove up!!!
HAROLD [shouting]
Can’t you see
I am trying to sleep in peace?
EDITH
You want peace?
You want peace?
Go someplace else.
HAROLD
I did go someplace else.
This is where I went.
EDITH
I am going to explain this to you:
I am not the sort of person who looks at a man and thinks
oh, I could take him on
make a project out of him
fix him up
he looks okay to me
not too disgusting
I am going to reason with the sonofabitch.
No.
This is not who I am.
I am the sort of person who says shove up
or
[she starts trying to kick him]
I will kick you black and blue,
because I am tired of walking around!
