Based on Belgium 1985
Linda Lepomme — Laat me nu gaan
(Jacqueline finds a note on the kitchen table and reads it out)
“Light manure fun
Message me
Night or daytime
Phone for dung meet
You wouldn’t have to wait so long each meal
Rule out cooking
Fresh plate here
Lovely chocolate
Succulent haemorrhoids
That’s slightly warm but relieving and flavoured
I like mine savoured
I’ll leave the door open
Answering squanders time for poos...”
(she puts the note down)
Nauseated
Even says “Eager to pay”
Hardly hidden
The note is on the bloody table
I can’t speak now
No…
I can’t eat now
Catch him at it?
He must be riddled, a little E. coli?
Fooled from beginning
I gave him years
It must be nine.
Bastard… that bastard…
(teardrop falls on the note as Jacqueline glances sadly at wedding photo on mantlepiece)
Seething now, looking round: that’s mine, that can go…
Don’t linger long
Who knows where faecal matter fell here?
My posh frock is marked
That’s not… a polka dot?
The sofa’s out. It looked amazing but I… can’t quite tell… what’s that…
(Jacqueline stands at doorway, suitcase in hand, and wipes tears away)
Right that’s me done
Fate unspoken
Might need these on
Without my specs I’m blind…
(actual note...)
