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The Punching Bag

Defend it.

It's the gun that doesn't get used. So what? You can put a thousand things on stage and not use them. It's a coy image right now. Coy and annoying. Justification for its presence is vague.

Yet we have a punching bag down in the lobby. It's big and red like a clown's extremity.

What is it? Where did it come from? Ether?

I haven't yet heard nor can I conceive of a convincing masterful argument that articulates the absolute need for a 75 pound bag of fist magnet to be suspended over that stage.

But if that thing is going to be there... and i'm not saying it shouldn't... IT SHOULD BE THERE. it shouldn't just materialize with no explanation at nigh to the end of the play so that it can not be used.

it should be part of the play within the play and the play over and under and over and the world and the street

or it shouldn't be there at all

and if it isn't to be punched then we should see it not be punched often... not punched by obese smokers, not punched by dancing cops, not punched by bea, not punched by rose, not punched by ottillie, not punched by steve, not punched by janis, not punched by a giant invisible rabbit... over and over an accumulation of a punching bag not being punched. frustratingly often

JUST PUNCH THE FUCKING PUNCHING BAG THAT'S WHAT IT'S THERE FOR.

otherwise, it should be punched fucking hard. fucked by a parade of fists. but it shouldn't. it shouldn't be touched. and it shouldn't be touched often.

because if its' going to be there... it's got to hang over the stage like the punching bag of damocles... constant perpetual threatening

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