Playwright Portrait, Kirk Wood Bromley, Excerpt from The Welcome Mask

The Playwright Kirk Wood Bromley, 2008

©pswbell 2010

 

The Welcome Mask

one of three plays in the trilogy, Three Dollar Bill – Plays on Being Queer and Conservative

Mom- Hi, son.

Son- Hi, mom.

Dad- Don’t you see, mother?

Mom- See what?

Dad- On his face?

Mom- I see nothing on his face.

Dad- Tell her what it is, son.

Mom- No! Let me guess. A carpeted jellyfish.

Dad- Can’t you see the mucous mysteries,

The bleak expositorial crevace,

The impractical tools, the fluffy wibbles?

Mom- A watermelon raised by wolves?

Dad- Can’t you see the plaguey clitoral hood?

Mom- The pancreas of an inside-out barber?

Son- It’s a vagina, mom.

Mom- Is it really?

I can’t say I’ve ever seen one of those.

Dad- Now you can, cuz it’s right there on his face!

Mom- It’s not as blurry as I’d pictured it.

Son- I got it from this goofy dude who lives

In a fit of grief.

Mom- Is the vaginamum

Related to the chrysanthemum?

Son- It’s a sex organ, mom.

Mom- What, like a piano

That gets softer the harder you pound it?