- Move a little please, can't you see you have some space left?
- Αnd go where? These two guys to my right and to my left, are hindering me.
- In that case, why don't you take a step back?
- I tried walking backwards, if that's what you mean, but they both did the same.
- Αnd why don't you do something about it?
- Do what? Complain? Poke them?
- I don't know, but you will be very strange, stranger than them that accidentally stand next to you, to your left and to your right! Because they are just standing and their walking backwards could be a coincidence.
- But how coincidental could it be that everytime I stepped backwards they did the same simultaneously? Can't you see their indifference? We talk about their abnormal behaviour and they don't react at all!
- They could be deaf! (Eve turns her head and sniggers surreptitiously...)
- Now this would be a coincidence indeed.
(TANNOY)
"Kindly make room for more passengers, because others are about to arrive"
-Will you ask them once and for all?
-Oh stop it lady! All this time I am this close to jumping on the tracks, or take two steps back and miss the last train.
(TANNOY)
"The new generation is coming up the escalators!"
- You are the middle man; the other gentlemen are not to be blamed.
- I stopped hearing you
- You stopped, because I stopped being by your side.
- And if I tell you that I love you, how will you know?
- Now I am not hearing a word you say.
- Maybe this is love.
- Lack of understanding
- Hearing and speaking
- Absense
Adam notices the toothbrush in her hand and suddenly says:
-This is very funny. Maybe I am the ghost of someone who took their
life, on the platform, standing between real people. In that case, are
you perhaps a ghost too?
- I am very glad I stopped hearing you, because I haven't the vaguest
idea what you mean. Ghosts are not "funny" at all, and you are insulting me. What else? I loved you too once upon a time and even married you.
- I hear everything you say
- Now it is too late.
- What must I do?
- Next time you will be completely alone here, and you won't remember a thing. You cannot do anything about it, but I can go to our graves, visit our grandchildren, it's Christmas today.
- Hold my hand! Adam says in agony.
- If I do that, I'll come back, I cannot watch this twice.
- Then you love me! Hold it damn it!
- Farewell Adam!
- Is that a no?
- I don't know.
(TANNOY)
"Of those of you who insist on not falling onto the railway track, the new generation will inadvertently throw you! Make room, courageously,
because a young person's life might depend on your resistance."
(HARP PLAYING, EVE SINGING)
They sit in seats designed for them
with a strange smile.
The train departs on cloud-track
leaves on an empty platform
where passengers are ghosts.
Nobody hears its whistle, for better or for worse,
The train departs on cloud-track,
the sun melds with their love.
