Monologues
Here's where you'll find all the monologues.
Monologue 1
[STACEY is a homeless young woman]
1.
STACEY: I knew a man
My father knew
He lived nearby
Went to a church
Nearby
And a bar
In town
Where he went most nights
And left most mornings
Staggering to his truck
To sleep it off
To forget who he was
Which was nothing
Not inside.
Not where it mattered
He had a good guy charm
For the other guys
But people who
knew
Knew
He wasn’t to be trusted
Let alone liked
2.
Just a drunk
Worse than most
With a failed farm
Still failing
And a failed marriage
And wife in hiding
And a son
Who feared him
And his son
Had a friend
A girl
Who just dropped by
Where’s Jamie
In the barn
Doing what
She should’ve asked
But didn’t and
So failure of a man would show her
But that was wrong
It sounded wrong
But instead of running
Running away fast
She went there
Into the barn
And got raped
Don’t tell your dad
Don’t tell the church
3.
Don’t tell the town
Don’t tell my son
Don’t tell him please
He cried
He begged
Don’t tell my son
So sorry
But someone did.
Someone had to.
And the son cried too
Not for the girl
For himself
For the shame
The father’s son