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the American Dream is dead
There was blood dripping off it
My dream was raped and murdered
Cut up into little pieces everywhere
I cried like the whore that I am
"You stupid slut, serve you right for living in the Land of the Kaffirs," the Imam yelled at me as he smacked my face. A tear rolled down my cheek.
I'm sorry, Allah.
will you forgive me??
No more porn, no more alcohol, no more white boys.
I will try 2 become a better Muslim, insha'Allah
Nov 19, 2009
new Interview with me online now!
Nov 16, 2009
56 Two Lovers in India (video)
Nov 10, 2009
55 I Want My Mom Dead
a 10 Minute stage play written by Sabina England

CHARACTERS
FAIZA, 25 yrs old South Asian woman
MOM, in her 50s
TAXI DRIVER
TIME
The present
PLACE
Living room, somewhere in good ol’ U.S.A
Oct 30, 2009
54 The Tragedy of Jack O'Lantern (Revised)
a Halloween short story written by Sabina England

Jack O'Lantern was very unpopular.
He had no friends.
All the English kids hated him.
They liked to taunt him,
Because he was Irish, he was different, and he was poor.
“Throw Jack in the lake!” they yelled at him every morning whilst he walked to school from his home.
“Burn Jack at the stake!” they shouted at him every afternoon whilst he made his way toward home from school.
“Dirty Irish dog!” Villagers liked to holler at Jack while he and his mother wandered into the town to buy fresh milk and cheese.
Poor Jack-- he was widely hated, loathed, and despised!
Little Jack lived with his mother in a broken down shack at the deep end of the forest in County Durham, England. He had no father— since his mama, Cecily O'Lantern, was a professional whore who slept with lots of men in exchange for money.

County Durham, 1857
One day, many years ago, Cecily had sex with a drunken English soldier who impregnated her with bastard Jack. At first, Cecily despaired at having a baby in her womb. She tried to abort the fetus by drinking poison, but failed. So she tried snatching out the fetus from her vagina with a soldering hot iron, but that also failed. In spite of all these failed attempts, little Bastard Jack was born and Cecily raised him in the woods of County Durham.
Cecily so deeply loved her son yet she also feared him. Jack was a boy and soon he would grow up to be a man—an abusive, cruel, violent man! Cecily was determined to mold Jack into a docile, unsuspecting, harmless soul who wouldn’t hit a woman, a child, or an animal. Her mission was a tremendous success—for Jack was one of the greatest, weakest, softest wimps to ever live in County Durham.
It was easy to beat up Jack- he never fought back. He didn’t know how to throw a punch or stand up for himself. Stupid Jack! He eventually died, having been murdered at the hands of three bored English youths. He was only 10 years old.
On a damp October afternoon, Jack O'Lantern was sitting at home, with nothing to do. His mother wasn't home, since she was busy whoring herself to the Spanish sailors who were stationed at County Durham.
Alas, he was bored and didn't want to be cooped up in that tiny, cramped shack, so he left for a walk into the town, in hope of seeking a good adventure. Unfortunately, he ran into three large, terrible English boys—Alden and his gang.
Alden was notorious for being an awful, cruel bully who would kick little puppies and tower over small girls, threatening to choke their necks unless they gave him their boiled sweets. He also hated Irish people and often enjoyed going on bog-bashing trips whenever he could. Alden was a horrible boy, full stop.
Victorian thugs in London, late 1800s.
As usual, Alden taunted him for being Irish, for being poor, and for being different. “You filthy mick!” he jeered at him, “you bloody bog!” He prompted his two friends to join in the taunting.
“Get on your knees and lick my boots!”
“Hey, Jack, when’s your mummy comin’ home? I want her to suck me off!”
“Bend down and bark like a dog!”
Jack was frightened; he wanted to run away. He tried to turn around to leave, but Alden and his two pals grabbed him too quickly. They carried him to the woods. Poor Jack O'Lantern screamed, kicked and thrashed around, trying to get away. He knew something awful would happen. As soon as they dropped him off onto the grass, Alden took out a large, gleaming knife. It looked lethal and sharp.
Jack started crying. He knew he really was in trouble now. No turning back.
Alden then stabbed Jack in the guts. Jack gasped and howled, grabbing his guts. Warm blood gushed out of his stomach. His hands turned crimson red.
Virgin Mary, please save me, Jack tearfully cried out. Amused at this, Alden shrieked with laughter.
“Look at this dog babbling like a fool!” Alden yelled at his two friends, while they pretended to snigger, but in truth, they were scared. Jack writhed around on the grass as more blood poured from his guts. While watching on in amusement, Alden had an idea to worsen Jack's suffering.
“Go get that large pumpkin!” he ordered his two pals, “and bring it over here.”
They grew nervous. They didn’t like being ordered around by Alden but they feared him. He could be brutal and violent if he wanted—it was best not to cross him.
There was a small pumpkin patch tucked away in the woods, abandoned and useless. Nobody ate these pumpkins, since they were moldy, eaten to the core by insects. One of the two boys hurried over to the patch and picked up a medium-sized pumpkin. He brought it down on the ground next to Jack.
“What are you going to do with the pumpkin?” they asked Alden. He smirked.
“Watch. I’m going to trade his head for the pumpkin.”
Alden sharpened the knife and then carefully swiped it across Jack's neck, in a vain effort to behead Jack. Poor little Jack screamed and begged not to be killed.
“Shut up, Irish filth!” Alden shouted, “you disgust me! You all deserve to be dead!”
Alden’s friends exchanged glances at each other. They didn’t like this at all.
“Stop this,” one of them urged their crazed leader, “we don’t want you to hurt Jack anymore.”
“Quiet!” Alden screamed, “get out of here if you don’t want to watch this!”
The two boys were too scared to turn around and run. Cos they knew Alden would charge after ‘em and wrestle ‘em to the ground, maybe even break their necks. So they stayed glued to their spots, quietly watching on as their leader struggled to behead Jack.

Victorian killer in London, late 1800s.
Alden kept swiping his knife across Jack's neck. Jack's neck was thick and sturdy—still not beheaded yet. Jack was babbling like a baby, his face streaked with heavy tears. Virgin Mary, save me! he wailed between his choking sobs, Virgin Mary, save me!
Alden was frustrated. He really wanted to behead Jack, but his neck was too thick to be cut with a knife! So he decided to position his knife carefully and with full force, he whammed his knife across Jack's neck, this time faster and stronger!!!
It worked!
Jack's head fell off!!!
It splashed to the ground! Massive blood poured everywhere!
Jack’s blood was an awesome deep shade of dark red, nothing like none of the boys had seen before!
Alden clapped and jumped up, cackling with laughter.
His two friends were horrified, terrified, and mortified.
They looked away, their eyes welling up with tears,
Their hearts thumping against their chests.
Alden cut Jack's eyeballs out of his skull.
He carved two large holes out of the pumpkin.
He inserted Jack's eyeballs inside the pumpkin.
He put the pumpkin on Jack's neck.
He ordered his two friends to help him carry Jack O'Lantern’s limp body intto town.
“We shall show off his corpse and his new pumpkin head to everyone!” Alden proudly boasted, while his two friends remained silent, afraid to their bones.
They went into town and showed his corpse off to everybody.
English villagers were shocked.
Men stopped in their tracks and stared.
Women gasped and shielded their children’s eyes.
It was truly a disturbing sight—
A headless child’s body,
A pumpkin on top of his bloodied neck,
Two eyeballs gaping out of the carved holes.
The villagers, they couldn’t believe it was real.

Image Courtesey of Tate Etc., London
“Arrest that boy!” they shouted.
Everyone came after Alden and wrestled him to the ground.
“I did what everyone always wanted to do!” he shouted, “and that’s me taking care of a filthy mutt! One down! Now it’s all of your turn to take care of the rest!”
Everyone turned their heads away.
Sadly, they knew Alden was right.
Everyone often tauned and mocked the Irish.
And he eliminated one for the team.
Cecily O'Lantern was in bed with her 5th Spanish sailor. She was physically exhausted and wanted to stop, but she had to keep earning her pay. It most certainly helped if alcohol was involved-- so she took a swig of home-made Irish whiskey that she brewed at home-- a special family recipe passed down to her by her great-grandmother.
Victorian prostitute
Intoxicated and determined, Cecily seduced the sailor with her giggles whilst he groped her breasts. He found her dashing, even though her face was lined with wrinkles, worn out by many years of selling her body to men. She was dressed in a lovely white corset, which the Spaniard found rather endearing. He promised himself to buy a similar corset in Londontown for his wife, before his ship would sail back to Spain. Cecily and her client were about to engage in drunken sexual congress when one of her fellow prostitutes burst into the bedroom and broke the tragic news.
Cecily, come outside quickly!
There's a dead boy with a missing head
Alden attacked him
We-we think it might be Jack...
In disbelief, Cecily jumped out of bed.
“No, it can’t be true,” she shouted.
She ran out of the whore-house,
She raced into the town
And that was when she saw her son.
His limp corpse slumped against the tree.
She recognized his corduroy pants which she had lovingly sewn months ago for him.
His muddy shoes and worn out vest confirmed Cecily’s worst fear it was indeed her son.
JACK! She screamed, MY CHILD!
She raised her arms upward and wailed to the Heavens-
Why did Jesus allow this to happen?
Why couldn’t the Virgin Mary have protected Jack?
What did she do to deserve this?
In a tremendous act of grief,
Cecily threw herself off the hill
Tumbling, tumbling, tumbling down toward the river
The rushing stream carried her body away
And that was the last the villagers saw of Cecily O’Lantern.
Jack was given a pauper’s funeral and buried somewhere in the woods.
Alden went to jail and served 3 months before he was eventually bailed out by his rich father.
He was driven mad to insanity, constantly terrorized by nightmares.
He ended his inner torment by blowing his brains out.
Alden’s two pals carried out a suicide pact due to extreme guilt for allowing such a horrendous murder to occur.
Each boy disemboweled each other in the guts with a sword.
Every October, the villagers witnessed a faint shadow of a pumpkin boy walking through the woods, his eyeballs illuminating bloody red: Jack O’Lantern.
Oct 21, 2009
53 My Bloody Asian Passion!


It wasn’t supposed to end like this, you goddamned bitch!
“I’m not your girlfriend!” she screamed, “I barely know you.”
“You-you think I’m some kind of a plaything?” she whispered, her voice trembling with anger, “you think I’m one of those weak, timid Asian girls you can control?”
For many years, I’ve masturbated to countless and countless porn videos of Asian porn stars, Asian fetish porn, and imported porn from the Far East. Asian women are known for being more womanly and submissive than American women. I hate white women. I hate black women. Asian women are the only ones I find desirable and worthwhile. But this bitch broke my dreams, she ruined my fantasies.
“I thought you were a nice American man!” she screamed as she smacked my head repeatedly. I groaned. My dick was hanging off my flesh. There was blood everywhere. The dumb bitch almost castrated me real good, but not quite. It was still there, but detached from my skin, like a tree stump. It hurt so fucking much. I’ll kill the little bitch…
She wasn’t who I thought she was.
After chatting with her on the Internet for seven months now and after I convinced her to come visit United States, she agreed and finally came to visit this country for the first time from Osaka. She’s always wanted to visit USA, she told me. She wasn’t visiting America just to meet me, she insisted. She wanted to see the country and while she was at it, she’d visit me, too. She flew down St. Louis, where I lived, to hang out with me for a few days.
I was very excited and thrilled about her coming to my hometown to meet me. I love Asian women. They were always my biggest wet fantasy. I’ve never personally known any Asian women, aside from annoying, loud-mouthed Asian American girls from high school and college. Those stupid broads wouldn’t shut their mouths and for a while, I hated Asian girls because of these sluts. They weren’t real Asians. They acted and talked like white chicks. I hated white chicks. They were loud, rude, and never knew when to shut up and sit down. I always preferred the traditional, polite, sweet Asian woman that I’d see in movies and TV shows. So far, I haven’t met any real Asian woman like that, here in St. Louis.
But this girl, Miyako, she was supposed to be the real deal. She was born and raised in Japan. She was cute and giggley. I enjoyed talking to her online everyday for 7 months. I was determined to meet her and hopefully make her become my wife. Finally, a real, proper Asian woman. She had a nice body and a sweet mouth, like out of Asian porn that I’ve devoured and watched obsessively for many years.
When she arrived in St. Louis, I picked her up from the airport. I offered to show her the sights of the city, when the reality was, I had a different plan in my mind. This Asian babe got into my car, expecting me to drive her around the city. Instead, I brought her to my apartment, with one goal in my mind: to have sex with her.
She was a stupid Asian slut and was nothing like I expected from Asian porn. She was supposed to be soft, sweet, and shy, but no, she was crazy and disobedient. I put her in my bed and I was about to put myself inside her naked body, when she suddenly woke up.
The dumb bitch screamed and then attacked me. I pinned her down and I quickly put my dick inside her. She howled and shrieked. “Shut up, you whore,” I snarled and I pushed my hand over her mouth. She bit my hand and I yelped. Greatly angered by this, I smacked her face a few times. She sobbed as blood poured out of her nose.
Finally I understood. She was just playing along the role of a scared Asian girl who secretly wanted to be raped. Good job, slut. This is a game, so let’s continue.
“Are you hungry?” I asked her, “do you want anything to eat?”
“Hungry?” I asked her. She nodded. I got up from my chair and went to the cupboard to search for food to feed my new Asian girlfriend. Maybe she’d like some Ramen noodles, since it was a Japanese dish. I took out a box of Ramen noodles and I turned around to face Miyako.
Startled, I dropped the box of Ramen noodles. I was taken back by what I saw. Miyako held my steak knife in one of her hands, upright in the air, the blade pointing toward my chest. She glowered at me, her eyes narrowed, as if she was ready to attack me and slit my throat open.
SHE CUT MY DICK OFF! I cried like a baby, holding myself tightly in a fetal position. I wanted to hold my penis, but it was floppy. It lied there on the floor, similar to a roadkill animal, muscles and blood mashed up like a run-over pizza. It was such a horrible, gruesome sight, that I leaned over and vomited all over my penis pie.
Soon, I’ll die from excessive bleeding.
FUCKING WHITE BOY! she screamed as she punched me repeatedly in the face. This was how I was going to die—at the hands of an Asian woman. Fuck. It wasn’t supposed to end this way. I wanted to have a nice, sweet, timid Asian wife who would obey me and do whatever I tell her. Instead, I’m about to be killed by this psycho bitch. Asian women were even more brutal than I thought.
I wished I had a white girlfriend instead.
Oct 11, 2009
52 Serial Killer in Training (video)
cheers,
Sabina England
Oct 10, 2009
a new article about ME!!!!
Oct 8, 2009
New Photos of "How the Rapist was Born" now online!
Oct 1, 2009
a review on my play HOW THE RAPIST WAS BORN
From Richard Pierce-Saunderson:
30th September, 2009
Dear Sabina,
Great to see you last night. The play was excellent; I hope lots of press turn out today to see it.
The ending of the play was totally unexpected for me.
I liked the repetition of the opening lines throughout – it had the effect of act changes, which I thought was really effective. You may or may not know that Brecht is one of my favourite playwrights, and the effect of having the girls hanging around at the beginning of the evening (and of having Charley hand the cock to the audience and shaking the hand of the audience during the play) made me think of his alienation effect – drawing the audience into the play at the same time as making them understand it was a play.
The sexually provocative schoolgirl outfits was what I was referring to in my text last night about the conflict created for men watching the play, because making the girls “attractive” immediately created guilt/self-examination in male watchers – let’s face it, men always check out girls, consciously or subconsciously, and one of the central themes of the play, as I saw it, was digging down into the rapists’ self-justification (“she deserved it because of the way she was dressed” – ie denying women the right of self-expression and choice).
What interested me on a personal level was the choice of music, bearing in mind that you can’t hear music. The soundtrack was very effective.
And, of course, the play adhered to Aristotelian principles. The claustrophobia of the hospital room was emphasised by the increasingly agitated behaviour of Charley and her gang, and this, in turn, dragged the audience right into what you’d written.
And please understand I’m writing this because it’s what I think, not because I like you.
Right, better go have some breakfast.
Richard Pierce-Saunderson (www.tettig.com)
Sep 27, 2009
my play opens Monday night! Come support new plays
Please come support new plays by emerging playwrights. The theatre is tucked in nicely around in London's West End district, vying to get attention against big musicals. Don't waste your money on these cliched musicals! Come see two new challenging, outrageous, hilarious, offensive, controversial plays with unconventional storylines!
I hope to see some of you at my play.
-Sabina England
Sep 17, 2009
for all you haters (regarding BURQA AND BIKINI)
I'm not offended, hurt, or upset. I am enjoying this. Like I said, please do keep talking shit about me. All of you are bringing a lot of attention to me and my plays, so I thank you for that. Besides, the fact that my play has caused a controversy means one thing: I ACTUALLY DID A GOOD JOB WRITING THE PLAY.
I love the fact that some of you idiots accused me of "slut shaming." That made me laugh so hard. Dumbasses, why dont you look at other stories and stage plays I have writen here, that are very pro-sex and pro-woman.
Secondly, my play explores the two extreme opposites of each other: the WHORE and the SAINT. The WHORE (Bikini) sleeps around a lot, wears very "slutty" clothes and is seen as a bimbo by society. The SAINT (Burqa) is seen as a submissive, weak female with no sexual desires, someone who is considered oppressed and has no voice. These two are the exact, extreme opposite of each other. I think we can all agree that most American (or anywhere else in the world) women do not fall into either category. Even hijabis (Muslim women who wear the headscarf) do NOT fall under the Burqa category. The media always presents women as either category: the Whore or the Saint. What about women who are NORMAL, like you and me? We are ignored and society refuses to acknowledge our existence.
Also, one last thing for all you haters: kindly please kiss my DEAF BROWN ASS.

Thank you.
-Sabina England
Sep 15, 2009
51 An American Tourist in Paris (video)
All my videos will feature ME and only ME. It is an one-woman show.
Please check out my 1st episode, AN AMERICAN TOURIST IN PARIS, which is a 1920s silent film-style mime sketch, and leave me comments on the video! Subscribe to my channel and look out for more videos in the future. I also have a Halloween special video planned!
Thank you and God Bless.
-Sabina England
Sep 14, 2009
How the Rapist was Born!
Thank you all and I hope to see many of you London folks at my play.
-Sabina England


Two short sharp plays about the rites of passage of youth weave a spontaneous physical comedy with a thrilling Manga nightmare into an unsettling, original space with relentless pace and rhythmic precision.
Jesus Christ & Chocolate Pudding
by Punam RamchurnWhen racism rears its ugly head, can childhood friendship ever be the same? This funny and heartening play reveals how even with innocence lost, friendship can endure.
How The Rapist Was Born
by Sabina EnglandCharley is the daughter of a notorious rapist. When she grows up she wants to be just like her daddy… ‘She hates herself. She hates everyone. She probably hates you too.’
Childhood is not all fun and games.
Monday 28 September – 17th October 2009
7.30PM
Suitable for audiences 16+
Prices: £12/£10
At Tristan Bates Theatre 1a tower street, London WC2H 9NP Box Office 020 7240 6283
Buy tickets
In association with Kali and Arts Council England.
Sep 9, 2009
Sep 3, 2009
49 Burqa and Bikini
a 10 minute stage play written by Sabina England

CHARACTERS
BURQA, a woman dressed in a burqa
BIKINI, a woman dressed in a bikini
PLACE
The art gallery, somewhere in the United States of America
TIME
The present
The light comes up.
Two women are displayed on the stage. They are frozen in poses, with blank expressions on their faces. A few people scattered around on the stage, observe the two women. A few of them walk away. Minutes later, the stage is empty-except for the two women, who are alone now.
They break their frozen poses and stretch. While stretching, they look at each other with snide expressions, obviously with a great dislike for each other.
BIKINI
Oh my bones ache.
BURQA
Statues don’t have bones, dummy.
BIKINI
I’ll say what I want.
(clears throat)
Oh, my bones ache.
BURQA
(mocking)
Dear me, my bones ache, too. Oh, that’s right- I’m a bloody statue and I don’t have any bones inside me!
Burqa looks at Bikini with disdain, Bikini can’t take it anymore so she speaks up.
BIKINI
You think I’m a whore and a bimbo, don’t you?
BURQA
I never said you were a whore,
(beat)
Although you are most indeed a bimbo.
BIKINI
You’re jealous you’re not wearing a bikini like me. Look at you, stuffed in that horrendous burqa. Oh, what a heavenly life as a statue stuffed in a burqa!
BURQA
You probably think I’m oppressed.
BIKINI
Well, yeah. Aren’t you?
BURQA
No, in fact, I think you’re oppressed and I feel sorry for you.
BIKINI
How’s that? Here I am, wearing a bikini and showing the whole world my body. I can do what I want and nobody tells me what to do. You wear that thing because the artist, a man, forced you to!
BURQA
Nobody forced me to wear a burqa! I chose to wear it because I want to please my Lord! My body is a jewel and I want to guard my jewel.
BIKINI
I wear a bikini for myself- well because I like it. I see my body as a jewel, too. I want to show it off to the whole world to see! I’m a diamond, baby.
BURQA
(sneering)
Exactly. You feel the need to wear a bikini because you’re desperate to seek approval from males to feel beautiful.
BIKINI
What if I like to seek approval? What if I get the pleasure from having lots of men look at my body?
BURQA
Well, I happen to like wearing my burqa, too.
BIKINI
Doesn’t it get hot under there?
BURQA
Don’t you feel dirty when guys look at you like you’re a blow up doll?
BIKINI
You’re weird.
BURQA
I think you’re pathetic.
BIKINI
I think YOU are oppressed.
BURQA
You call this oppression, I call this my liberation.
BIKINI
Haven’t you ever worn a bikini? Not just once? Aren’t you curious what it feels like to be almost naked, standing on the beach and having all these guys look at you like they want to eat you-
BURQA
I’ve never even shown my hair in public.
BIKINI
Why not?
BURQA
I believe in modesty. I do what my Lord tells me to. It’s in my religion to tell me to cover my jewel.
BIKINI
That’s great but I don’t care about religion or God. I do what I want and you’re not going to tell me to cover my own jewel.
BURQA
I’m not trying to tell you to wear a burqa. If you’re gonna wear a bikini, I want to wear my burqa.
BIKINI
I just don’t want anyone to force me to wear a burqa. I like my right to wear a bikini!
BURQA
That’s why I love being in this country. I can wear what I want. But when I wear this, people call me a terrorist and they say I shouldn’t be allowed to wear it. Yet I thought we have freedom of expression here.
BIKINI
How is wearing a burqa considered freedom of expression?
BURQA
Freedom of expression means- the freedom to express yourself. In any style of manner.
BIKINI
I haven’t thought about it that way.
BURQA
Your bikini is your expression of being free. My burqa is my expression of devotion to Allah.
BIKINI
Well, I suppose that’s a good point.
BURQA
I will never wear a bikini and I think you’re better than wearing that awful bikini, but I’m not going to look down at you.
BIKINI
I-I sort of looked down at you. I assumed you were weak- helpless and oppressed. But you’ve got a loud mouth and you won’t shut up.
(she laughs)
BURQA
That’s what everyone thinks.
BIKINI
But it’s not different when I wear a bikini. Lots of guys and even some females assume that I’m just some stupid bimbo, too.
BURQA
Don’t a lot of males think that way about females, no matter how they dress, though?
BIKINI
Yeah, probably.
(beat)
BURQA
Sometimes I hate being female.
BIKINI
Why?
BURQA
There’s no way to win.
BIKINI
But you’re wearing a burqa to please your Lord. It’s your expression of devotion. Doesn’t that make you happy?
BURQA
Yes, but people won’t leave me alone about it. They would shout, Terrorist! Go back to Iraq!
BIKINI
Sometimes I wish I wouldn’t care so much what guys think of me.
BURQA
What?
BIKINI
I’m scared of getting old. I don’t want wrinkles or cellulite. I don’t ever want to become fat. Shit. I feel like I gotta have botox and plastic surgery when I hit my 40s.
BURQA
But you’re a statue.
BIKINI
Even statues get old. Cracks and yellowing, you see.
BURQA
Yeah. There’s always that pressure to look beautiful and young.
BIKINI
But you wear a burqa. I thought you wouldn’t have to face pressure to be beautiful.
BURQA
That’s IF I’m lucky to find a man who’s good enough for me and he’d always love me no matter how I look.
BIKINI
Good luck with that. Most guys are pigs and they only care about how a woman looks.
BURQA
No shit.
BIKINI
Did you just cuss?
BURQA
Did I?
BIKINI
I think you did.
BURQA
Oh- I don’t remember. If I did, I’m sorry-
BIKINI
Don’t apologize. I don’t care if you cuss or not. It’s just surprising coming from someone who looks so religious like you.
BURQA
Or someone who looks weak, oppressed, and helpless, right?
BIKINI
(blushes)
I’m sorry for thinking that way about you.
BURQA
It’s alright. I thought something bad of you, too.
BIKINI
What were you thinking of me?
BURQA
That you were a shameless, dirty whore who sleeps around with lots of men.
BIKINI
I DO sleep around sometimes.
BURQA
Oh.
BIKINI
Does that make me a whore?
BURQA
I don’t know.
BIKINI
Technically, yes, it does make me a whore. But why does it have to be a bad thing?
BURQA
Isn’t being called a whore supposed to be an insult?
BIKINI
Not if you won’t let it. I think it’s a badge of honor. I’m proud to be a whore. I see nothing wrong with being one.
BURQA
Fair enough, I suppose.
BIKINI
Have you ever had sex?
BURQA
No.
BIKINI
Have you ever done anything sexual?
BURQA
No- I believe in waiting for marriage.
BIKINI
Well, you do what you want and I’ll keep sleeping around with lots of men.
BURQA
Who do you have sex with?
BIKINI
Other statues. When it’s closing time and they close the gallery, I like to sneak out of my glass display window and have sex with other guys.
BURQA
Like who?
BIKINI
You know that handsome Greek statue by the front entrance?
BURQA
The naked man with a nice body?
Bikini nods and leans in.
BIKINI
Girl, let me tell you. He really knows how to pleasure a woman.
BURQA
You serious?
BIKINI
For real.
(beat)
BURQA
I’ve thought about sex.
BIKINI
We all do. It’s natural.
BURQA
I’ve always wondered what it’ll be like. I want it to be special when I do it with my future husband. But my husband has to be a virgin, too. I’m not going to put up with shit from guys just because I’m female and they’re male.
BIKINI
Good. I’m glad you’re not going to take shit from guys.
BURQA
No one ever should.
BIKINI
Are all other Muslim women like you?
BURQA
Now, come on. What would you say if I ask, are all white women like you?
BIKINI
Yeah, now that’s a very ignorant thing for me to say.
BURQA
There’s like 1.2 billion Muslims in the whole world. Do you have any idea how many Muslim women there are in this country alone?
BIKINI
No.
BURQA
Me neither but we Muslim women are not the one and the same. Anyway I’ve known some who wore bikinis and slept around with lots of guys. There was even one Muslim porn star I read about in the news once.
BIKINI
A Muslim porn star?!
BURQA
Yeah. But she wasn’t religious or anything. She was like you, I guess.
BIKINI
I see.
(beat)
I actually do believe in God.
BURQA
Oh?
BIKINI
Yeah. I mean, I don’t think much about God, but I do believe there’s a God out there.
BURQA
You believe we come from God?
BIKINI
God creates humans and humans make statues. But what are we statues made of?
BURQA
Clay.
BIKINI
And humans are made of what?
BURQA
Bones and muscles.
BIKINI
The answer is clay. Humans are made from clay, too. Human bones are clay. We’re all the same, humans and statues.
BURQA
Humans are like statues in so many ways. They’re desperate to pose and look good so they can impress someone else.
(beat)
So what about Jesus? Do you believe in Jesus?
BIKINI
I really don’t think about Jesus.
BURQA
So you don’t see Jesus as your Savior or something?
BIKINI
Not really.
(teasing)
Not all white people see Jesus as their savior.
BURQA
I know.
Sounds of footsteps approaching.
BIKINI
Quick! They’re coming back!
BURQA
It was nice talking to you.
BIKINI
We must have coffee sometimes later in the future.
BURQA
But statues can’t drink coffee.
BIKINI
Statues aren’t supposed to have feelings, either. Or talk and have a healthy conversation, for that matter.
BURQA
I’ll see you at closing time.
They freeze back into their original poses. Their faces are frozen. A few people enter the stage, observing the statues.
Light fades out.
BLACK OUT.
END.



