Text Messaging (Daniel W. K. Lee

Text Messaging (Daniel W. K. Lee - New Orleans, LA)

I. Situations: a play

Scene 1

Me: Where are you?

You: You back?

Me: Miss me?

You: Terribly.

Scene 2

Me (drunk): Where are you now?

You (back from Buffalo): Miss me?

Me (back from nowhere): Is it a question

when you already

know the answer?

(seconds later): You gave me

no other choice.

[message not sent]

II. Excerpts

Amor de mis entrañas, viva muerte,

en vano espero tu palabra escrita

y pienso con la flor que se marchita

que si vivo sin mí, quiero perderte.

*

And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart

In your stray moments, as now in

mine, may what was not

rise like grief before you.

From poems I read earlier. Made me

think of you, sorry.

[message not sent]

III. Proofreading

a) Never b sorry! Just tell me

what ur referring too.

b) Cuter

Cutey

c) Awsome.

You to lover..

d) In more ways

then one

Notes on the Text

Excerpt 1: from “Amor de mis entrañas, viva muerte…” by Federico García Lorca

Excerpt 2: from “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman

Excerpt 3: from “Luggage” by Frank Bidart

Prelude to a Breakup

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