After a while
He Tries to Seem a Victim
Two psychiatrists-pals chat in the smoking room. Bill and Paul are very clever and a bit tricky ones. Some goes in the corridor.
Paul (imitating someone):
Bill Price, c’me on, I will show the wonders to you!
Bill:
Paul!
Paul:
Bill!
I dislike such of your friends,
Who obscures brush of hands.
He tries to seem a victim-
His manner leads to bad,
He tries to seem a victim-
It’s harmful for the head.
Bill:
Old fellow Paul! I cure him,
I know that he’s someone to heal
But he is not so crazy;
He can be very nice,
I think your mind is lazy,
Of course, he is not…
Paul (became angry, interrupts Bill):
Price!
I want you, Bill, to argue well:
He is your patient, not the pal.
He tries to seem a victim-
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The stake we are gambling are frighteningly high!- (briefly and ironically looks at Paul)-
We must crush him completely,
So like one before him, this Jesus must die.
For the sake of the nation, this Jesus must die!
(Bill laughs loud and goes away. Paul stays to time a cigarette alone. He’s dissatisfied.)
As Told by Herod
In the same hospital: Bill and Mirror (without the black-eye now, he’s looking better, but he’s perfectly gloomy) walk and talk. All around are patients. Bill witty jokes, as usual, forgetting the fact that he ought to «keep the distance»: seems that these two are rather friends than the doctor and his patient.
Bill:
You can’t be a freak if it is not your nature:
Iscariot tried- and he finished by choke,
But Herod could be such without a failure-
He’s king of the Jews, and, moreover, of mocks.
Mirror (makes a gesture «jokes aside, stop it»- his further story should sounds depressive and depressing. Mirror sings in such manner, as if the talks about the things, which he’s remembering):
When I keep my silence,
He smiles at me:
I see all the violence
That someone can see-
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Are you glad now that your friend was sold?
Did you like this your deal, mister Midnight?
Did you think that you could take some more?!
Throw away list of my dying wishes-
All the same you can’t know what I pray-
And I don’t want to hear your speeches
I know well, who’s the one to betray! –(Judas quickly kisses Mirror on the cheek and goes away, into the garden.)
Mirror:
In the past I had a friend,
Which was always at hand,-
Everyone now means a fellow
Or a pal, but nothing else.
It’s true: Judas was a traitor…
And the best of all the friends.
It’s So Far and It’s So Close
The Palm Sunday is a very sunny spring day. Bill and Mirror go out the pharmacy (on which there’s the sign «Drugstore».) People go along the streets with the branches of willow, all drink and have fun it’s similar to a folk festival. Bill seems cheery, but his friend is sad. Bill looks sideways at Mirror, who nibbles a branch of willow.
Mirror:
I start to see in a different