In Remembrance

In Remembrance

Monologue suitable for Easter evening.

(Eating and drinking throughout)

I’m starving... Mind you, is it any wonder? I’ve hardly
eaten since Thursday night... Friday was so busy...
Yesterday I couldn’t have faced food... And today...
well I’ve had other things on my mind. But now... I
could eat the harness off a nightmare... But then so
much of the past few days has been a nightmare...
He warned us all, but no one paid any attention...
Whenever he started talking about his death, and he
did it all the time, we all pooh-poohed it, said it would
never happen... He even told us how it would happen,
but it was still a shock when it came... Yet even...