Cowboy Mouth
By Sam ShepardCavale, "a chick who looks like a crow," has kidnapped Slim, "a cat who looks like a coyote," off the streets with an old .45. She wants to make him into a rock star. They've been in this room for too long and they're both mean as snakes. They are currently exchanging childhood memories.
CAVALE
You're so neat. You're such a neat guy. I wish I woulda known you when I was little. Not real little. But at the age when you start finding out stuff. When I was cracking rocks apart and looking at their sparkles inside. I bet you would've protected me. People were always giving me shit.
Ya know what? Once I was in a play. I was real glad I was in a play 'cause I thought they were just for pretty people and I had my dumb eyepatch and those metal plate shoes to correct my duck foot. It was "The Ugly Ducking" and I really dug that 'cause of the happy ending and shit. And I got to be the ugly duckling and I had to wear some old tattered black cloth and get shit flung at me, but I didn't mind 'cause at the end I'd be that pretty swan and all.
But you know what they did, Slim? At the end of the play I had to kneel on the stage and cover my head with a black shawl and this real pretty blonde-haired girl dressed in a white ballet dress rose up behind me as the swan. It was really shitty, man. I never got to be the fucking swan. I paid all the dues and up rose ballerina Cathy like the North Star. And afterwards all the parents could talk about was how pretty she looked. Boy, I ran to my hideout and cried and cried. The lousy fucks. I wish you were around then. I bet you would've protected me.
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