Friday, July 26, 2013

WOMEN OF A CERTAIN RELIGION OR MUSLIM WOMEN: A PLAY IN MONOLOGUES


HUMMA:
(Talking to herself, trying to convince herself that her solitude has become dangerous)

Either commit suicide or go to an institution for the insane.

Because there is no solution otherwise to change your circumstances.

Its time for you to admit it that now you are completely isolated and alone

in all your endeavors.

The dysfunction in your genes and DNA and the same dysfunctional DNA

of your remaining family and your religion is not going to change.

It can not change.  Its a disease.  Disease needs treatment and everyone has

to agree to the kind of treatment.

The problem and the dysfunction of the family and Humma's religion is

the disagreement on all issues and total non communication about all subjecys.

So yes, there is no one for you to laugh with....

Yes, you are all alone....

Yes, you have no support...

No help....

No understanding of family....

No understanding of community....

No understanding of religion...

No, No. Understanding at all.....

No nothing......

Now what's your decision?

Suicide or institution?

Or do you have a third option?

You can forget about every one and everything

and enjoy your loneliness and Isolation....

People who are determined can enjoy anything.

Do things you like...

Alone, of course

With who else?

Stop thinking about three things

Yourself

Your family

Your religion

And you will be perfectly happy

You will completely forget about mental asylum

or suicide....

You will just laugh

And laugh by yourself

People will think you are mad and will leave you alone....

That would be much better...

To laugh and to be alone than to be with miserably

petty, mean, vindictive, selfish, cruel, liers, manipulative, insincere people....

Don't you think people like that exist?

You must be aware of that, you especially hang out with them.....

Don't you?

And isn't that also the reason of you being suicidal?

Religion is not the only thing.....its people too....

Much more venomous......

Occupy your evenings

The most important thing for you....

The isolation of the evening is murderous for your psyche

Occupy your evenings.......

The place you live in offers tons of things for the evening

Opera....

Theater....

Music...

Beg or borrow, go to these things....

Begging is better than going insane....

Steal even but go to the opera.....

For three hours you will think of some one else's problems and passions

It will give you a break from your self......

Take a break from yourself

And everything which reminds you of yourself......

Total, complete break for couple of hours every evening from your self

and your troubled thoughts will retrieve your well being......

Call these things your evening job.....

Opera, theater, music, museum.......

That's your evening job....

"I am not available." " Would you not go to your work?"

I mean any body, "Would you not show up for your work?"

Impossible....

You will be fired....

'Go to the theater....six days a week, one night to the cinema.....

Then let me know if you still want to commit suicide or get

admitted in mental institution?"

I am sure you will run far, far away from it....

and if you still are not healed then you are totally insane..........................

GREATEST DISAPPOINTMENT

"SOMETIMES WHEN I REALLY GIVE OF MYSELF

TO SOMEBODY AND THEY DON'T RESPECT THAT.

THAT'S MY LIFE FORCE,MY ENERGY---DON'T TRASH IT."  Stephen Jones
...........................

"DUST YOURSELF DOWN AND START ALL OVER AGAIN."  Stephen Jones

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

WHO WROTE WUTHERING HEIGHTS?

WHO WROTE WUTHERING  HEIGHTS?

A: Emily Bronte wrote "Wuthering Heights" and  Charlotte Bronte

     wrote Jane Eyre

B: No, its the opposite, Charlotte wrote, Wuthering Heights and Emily

    wrote Jane Eyre...

A: You want to bet

B: Yes.

A: How much?

B: One hundred dollars

A: You just lost one hundred dollars

B: No, I gained $100

A: You are wrong and you always insist on being right

B: I AM RIGHT

A: Thats where your problem lies.  You always want to be right

B: But I am right

A:  YAH..YAH..YAH.  I DON'T READ SO MUCH FOR NOTHING-YOU IMBECILE.

PROPER WAY OF LIFE

PROPER WAY OF LIFE

A SHORT PLAY
BY
BINA SHARIF

Copyright:binasharif 2013

M: She is with a tall man

N: And?

M: And what?

N: She is with a tall man and what?

M: Nothing else-she is just with a tall man-

N: Not a very interesting story

M: Who said, its a story?

N: I thought you were a story teller

M: You can think of whatever you want....

N: SO WHAT'S THE POINT?

M: Point of what?

N: Point of telling me that,"She is with a tall man."

M: No particular point...just a conversation

N: Thats not a conversation.  Thats a statement

M: Alright, thats a statement

N: What's the point of making statements?

M: Just a way of talking

N: Who is talking?

M: I was talking

N: You weren't talking to me

M: i WASN'T...

N: SO WHY SAY,"JUST A WAY OF TALKING?"

M: Just to do something, one has to say something

N: Why say something when one has nothing to say

M: I had something to say

N: Like what?

M:  I said,"She is with a tall man."

N: Yes, but information is incomplete

M: Who's information?

N: Your's-

M: I wasn't informing any one-

N: Then why call it information?

M: Just a certain way of talking, keeping busy...

N: That's not a great way of keeping busy

M: What is?

N: Doing something

M: Saying something is doing something

N: Do you know the English language?

M: What do you mean?

N: Do you have any idea of the English language?

M: As much as you do, I guess....

N: No you don't...

M: What is it that I don't know?

N: The English language

M: Ok, teach me

N: "Saying" means "Saying" and ,"Doing" means, "Doing"

M: My sayings are my doings...

N: Thats nonsense

M: NO, ITS VERY IMPORTANT. WHAT EVER YOU SAY,THATS WHO YOU ARE

      AND WHO EVER YOU ARE THATS WHAT YOU DO.

N: You are crazy

M: Better to be crazy than so fucking critical. Who are you any way? Get off my back.

      You are overwhelmingly negative about whatever I say or do.  You always are.

       every moment of my life, you are criticl for no reason, get off my back, you monkey.

       irritating me with your negativity, killing my impulses all day long....

       get off my back otherwise I will stab you,  I am so sick of you that I can't breath...

       You say one more fucking thing and you are dead...dead...dead. Now shut the

        fuck up.  Once and for all, shut up, shut up, shut up.

        I am sick of your rant and your scratching and clawing my back....

        scratching my neck with your venomous claws.  You open your mouth

       one more time you are dead, and it will be stabbing by a knife...(he lifts up his knife)

       I have a knife my sharp kitchen knife, (Shows him the knife) look, how long and

      how sharp my knife is.... You dare open your mouth one more time and you are a dead man.

      (Raises his knife to stab his own back)

N: Don't be stupid.  Don't commit suicide,  Just learn proper way of life.  Learn the

      the English language.  Say and do proper things to live properly. I am not at your back.

      I am not your monkey.  That monkey doesn't exist.  I don't exist  at least not the monkey

      of your back..  You are your own monkey, you want to kill your own monkey, go ahead...

M: (LIFTS UP THE KNIFE AND PIERCES HIS OWN SPINE)

END OF PLAY

    

    








Tuesday, July 23, 2013

MANHATTAN SPLEEN CONTINUES

MANHATTAN SPLEEN

Why must you discontinue what you do love?

What do you love?

I asked you, what do you love?

What do I love?

Yes, what do you love?
.............

It will come
when it will come
why are you waiting for it?
Death I mean.
...............

'Don't do what you say,"You shouldn't do."

'Do what you say,"YOu should do."

'I said,"Don't."

Don't you get it?

No, you don't get it.

I am so mad at you, so mad at you

i COULD KILL YOU.
,,,,,,,,,,,,

A: YOU DON'T KNOW

B: THAT'S THE PROBLEM

A: YOU DON'T KNOW

B: UNBELIEVABLE

A: YES, ITS UNBELIEVABLE

B: YOU DON'T KNOW

A: NEITHER DO YOU

B: WASTE

A: A WASTE OF LIFE

B: EVERY ONE'S?

A: NO.

B: YOUR'S?

A: YOUR'S AND MINE

B: WHY MINE?

A: MINE AND YOUR'S

B: BUT WHY MINE?

A: I CAN ASK THE SAME QUESTION

B: THEN ASK

A:NO POINT

B: NO POINT?

A: YES, NO POINT ASKING

B: ASK ANY WAY

A: I KNOW THE ANSWER, NO POINT ASKING

B: ASK ANY WAY

A: I DON'T WASTE TIME ASKING WHAT I ALREADY KNOW

B: WHAT DO YOU ALREADY KNOW

A: ITS A WASTE

B: WHAT'S A WASTE?

A: LIFE

B:YOURS?

A: YOURS AND MINE

B: NOT MINE, YOUR'S ONLY. I PLAY. I PLAY AT LIFE

A: LIFE DOESN'T LET ANY ONE PLAY WITH IT, LIFE PLAYS WITH US

B: I LIKE THAT.  "LIFE PLAYS WITH US." I LIKE THAT

A: LIFE LIKES IT TOO

B: PLAYING WITH US?

A: YES

B: I DON'T MIND.  I LIKE PLAYFUL LIFE

A: LIFE IS LAUGHING AT YOU

B: I LIKE THAT ALSO. I LIKE THINGS WHICH LAUGH

A: LIFE IS NOT A THING

B: WHAT IS LIFE THEN?

A: LIFE IS A DANGEROUS OBJECT

B: YOU BEHAVE AS IF ITS A KNIFE

A: YES AND ITS A SHARP KNIFE, IT WILL KILL YOU WHENEVER IT WANTS

B: THEN IT WILL GO TO JAIL

A; NOT EVERY ONE GOES TO JAIL

B: IF YOU KILL YOU GO TO JAIL

A: NOT IN OUR COUNTRY, ZIMMERMAN IS FREE.........WHEN YOU KILL

AN INNOCENT YOU DON'T GO TO JAIL BUT WHEN LIFE KILLS YOU

THEN YOU ARE CERTAINLY GUILTY.  GUILTY OF NOT LIVING A GOOD LIFE.

GUILTY OF WASTING LIFE. YOU DIE FOR WASTING LIFE.  YOU ARE GUILTY OF

OF THAT.

B: AND ZIMMERMAN?

A:  HE IS NOT GUILTY.  HE JUST WASTED SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE, NOT HIS OWN...

NOT HIS OWN........

................................

"And what is this?"

"Just a drawing

"Drawing of what? an animal? a human? a fish? a bird. a cockroach? a fly? a rat? an insect, a mouth?

Who knows...and why do you always ask me condescending questions? who are you?

who the hell are you?"
...................

GROW UP

Don't call her

Don't call the other one also

Don't call any one....

What's wrong with you?

No, really tell me, what's wrong with you?

No, really tell me...what the f**k is wrong with you?

GROW UP............
............................

Good start
Bad end
So simplistic...............
...................

FAT, FAT, FAT

FAT ENOUGH?

"YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD TODAY"

"ONLY TODAY?"

"SHAME ON YOU."

"DETERIORATING EVERY YEAR."
.............................

BAD MOOD

E: Write a play

F: Really?

E: yes, write a play

F: You write a play

E: I am not a playwright

F: Neither am I

E: What are you then?

F: I don't know

E: Who knows then?

F: You do-you know. You know everything. Now tell me who am I?

E: Why would I know.  Its not my fucking life, Its yours

F: Then leave me the fuck alone

E: Oh! you are in a bad mood...Pretty bad mood...Pretty, Pretty bad mood......

THE END
...........................






Monday, July 15, 2013

NOTHING

Nothing is happening
Nothing ever happens
Luck they witch wattaiy neon

Friday, July 12, 2013

EXCLUSION OF KARIMA ULLAH

And the exclusion from family?
They can say Karima excluded them...

She left
They had a different life
Children
Grand children
Different attitudes

Their children then moved on
So let it be.....

Karima lost a house
Karima lost companion ship

They decided to put Karima in her place
Maybe she lost
But they also lost....
Every one lost.......

Every one wanted to sweep the loss under the carpet but the
loss kept creeping through and through
Sprouted like rose buds but without the roses
And adorned with thrones
Thousands of them....

They lost
Karima's deep affection
Deep deep affection
Karima's love
Karima also lost their love

But whose fault was it?

They claim it was Karima's fault
All Karima's fault
All of it

That can't be possible
Is it?
Where there are more than two people involved
One is never faultless....

But they claimed vehemently that it was all Karima's fault....
so lets learn from previous mishaps....

Why must Karima be dependent for her happiness and success
on three to four family members and three or four other ass holes?
Four people...'
Is that it?
Three other creeps
Is that it?
Karima's life is becoming pathetic
Pathetic, dependent, helpless, hopeless
Karima is waiting for attention, love, affection,success
But its not coming and its not going to come this way
Only despair is coming
And buckets full of it is coming....
and Karima is all muddy and wet and deep in the slush....

Soon it will be too late for anything
Any hope for sure
Its already so late
So alone, so isolated, so sad.......

Karima has to snap out of it
Snap out of it
Snap out of it
Snap out of it.....

Karima has excluded herself from achievement, happiness,progress,
success, mobility,progress,enjoyment, travels,everyday duties and chores,
everyday activities,self worth.....
Karima has excluded herself from her self worth....
Thats decided
No self worth for Karima
None....
Zero......

Karima has also excluded herself from self liking
From her place of residence, from her body weight, from herself
Exclusion from self love began at her birth....

And that is all because of four or five family members and three or four other non relatives
authority figures?
Can a whole life be destroyed by a few people even important to certain extent?

I guess Karima's whole life was those certain people.....
What a shame!
What a tragedy!

Karima never realized, imagined, that the world is huge and that
huge world also belongs to her like it does to other people...

And some people from the family were not so bad....and the rest should not be
Karima's concern.....

The children of the family members are not Karima's children...
They are other people's children....

Karima never got that....
Karima should have had her own children
But she was too involved in other people's children....
Karima's love for others was abnormal
It was at her own expence
And thats how the exclusion began....
Her exclusion from herself began a long time ago
She did not know it had began
So how could she know that its now completed....
Her exclusion from herself and from the world is now complete...........

Why other people, (People she loved) were more important to her than her own life
But that was her life
Thats how she felt
Though she didn't examine the problem then
For her it was not a problem then'
Its a problem now'
When she feels abandoned by them
Abandoned by herself
Abandoned of everything.......
Abandoned by everything...........

They should have been important to Karima, her loved ones
but not more important that she forgot  herself along the way....
Yes, thats what she did....She forgot herself along the way.....
Lost herself completely....

Its unbelievably sad and unfortunate.....
But no one knows about her condition
And Karima doesn't know either  what their minds are at or about either.....

Why should Karima care so much at the risk of her every day happiness?
Happiness and everyday function and functioning of the mind in a healthier way.....

Karima's every day function at this moment is of ut most Importance....
Her health
Her house
Her work

Karima's whole pattern of thinking and obligations of love has to change
once and for all....
Obligation?
What a word!
and why it predominates in Karima's psyche?
Obligation of love
Obligation for love
Obligation towards love
Why not obligation towards herself?
Because Karima doesn't love herself
Karima has never loved herself
Karima is incapable of loving herself
End of the story......

But the story hasn't ended yet
The story has to change
Karima has to change her sense of obligation to the loved ones
and the strangers even to the dogs.....

Have to have extremely formal relationships with every one.....
Every one I say....
Do you hear me Karima?
I say every one.....
Including your family Karima....
Thats where it all started
The obligation of love
Thats where it all started......

And be away....
Far away, far far away from every one
far away and cold and polite
But come closer to yourself
Be warm and caring and loving to yourself Karima.....
But far, far away from every one else
Cold, polite and distant....
The secret of success of the Western world and the aeastern world and the capitalistic
society and the ancient society even the animal kingdom....
Stay away......

Not so interested in any one but in your work
Work?
What"s that?
Whatever it is....just be interested in that....

Be not interested in any one else and anything else
Not so very genuinly interested.
Its not the way of the world Karima lives in
and has failed miserably the way Karima created and lived in the
Love...love...world she imagined...

Karima lives at least 40 years behind if not a century behind....
Live in 2013
Not in 1974
Ok?
Ok?
Ok?

Karima say ok, please
Say ok
Say ok Karima......

And Karima's family is right
Why tkeep talking about certain things
Why?
What does Karima get out of it?
Let the world be full of thieves, hoodlums, war mongeres, gossipers, evil, corrupt
mony launderes, cheats, kings, bastards, hustlers....
It doesn't make any difference to Karima's life
Why keep talking about them and the news of the world and countries and faiths and whatever else...
What for?
What does it do for Karima?
Karima should understand that
Why Karima wants to be on the unpopular sid eof things and family ?
Why?
Why Karima why?

Think things,
Belive in things,
But don't say it
Don't discuss it....
Karima already believe in certain things so why discuss it with those who don't?
Why Karima?
Why?
Why are you wasting Karima?
Why are you taking revenge on your self?
Whay have you done that you need to take revenge?
What have you done that you hate yourself so much for?

Karima has no idea who she is trying to convince and whay?
And why should Karima try to convince any one about her own convictions?
If Karima is convinced thats the only thing Karima should settele on.....
Why talk about it to others?
And as far as Karima thinks that her family opinion about her is of a failure
so what?
Why the family's opinion matter so much at this stage otr at any stage of the game?
If Karima thinks she is a failure then its ok
Failure is ok....Karima....
Every one who is born is a, "FAILURE."
Success is only relative....success compared to million other people's success
is not really success either.
These are two words in English language
They have to be used on different people at different times
But Karima if that is your sorrow that your family
thinks that you are a failure....thats very good, very very good....
SEE HOW MUCH THEY THINK OF YOU ACTUALLY....
YOU ARE CONSTANTLY IN THEIR THOUGHTS...
AND IN THE THOUGHTS OF THE REST OF THE WORLD ALSO
BECAUSE KARIMA IS CONVINCED THAT SHE IS A FAILURE
AND THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS IT SO KARIMA IS NOT ACTUALLY EXCLUDED FROM THE WORLD.....
THE WORLD IS THINKING OF KARIMA AS A FAILURE BUT STILL THINKING OF KARIMA.....

DOES THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY KARIMA?
YOU ARE A BIG PART OF THE WORLD.
THEY CAN'T APPRECIATE THEIR SUCCESS WITHOUT THINKING OF YOUR
FAILURES.

ITS YOU KARIMA, ITS YOU WHO CONSTANTLY THINK OF HERSELF AS A FAILURE....
NEITHER FAMILY NOR THE WORLD GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOU KARIMA...NOT A SHIT......
SO WHY SHOULD YOU GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE FAMILY OR THE WORLD OR
WHO EVER OR WHATEVER.....
JUST FROM TODAY ON, FROM THIS MOMENT ON GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE WORLD AND EVERY ONE IN IT AND EVERYTHING IN IT.....
JUST GET UP AND GIVE A SHIT......
AND IF ITS YOUR CHOICE TO EXCLUDE YOURSELF FROM THE SHITTY WORLD AND ITS INHABITANTS THEN DO IT BY ALL MEANS...
BUT DON'T LET IT UPTO THE WORLD AND FAMILY TO GIVE A  SHIT ABOUT YOU....
YOU GET UP AND GIVE ASHIT ABOUT THEM..............
SO KARIMA EITHER GIVE A SHIT OR STOPP THINKING ABOUT THE SHIT OF OTHERS.....
ACCEPT YOURSELF AS A FAILURE WHO IS SURROUNDED BY SHIT AND GO ON HAPPILY.......AND AMUSE YOURSELF....
KARIMA YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AMUSE YOUR SELF IN THIS SHITTY WORLD.

Otherwise there is nothing else to be done about it....Enjjoy your failures and your whatever little things called little, little achievements, a little bit, a tiny bit,just a tiny bit...
So enjoy that tiny bit, that little bit that you did like about yoursels or feel that it was a speck of a success......amongst your tremendous failures....
Claim your failures, your mistakes, your failings, your stupidities, your blunders every second and don't
try to prove it to any one otherwise...
Karima, you don't have to prove to any one about success and failure, about love or hate, about
slim or fat, about young or old, about this country or that, about cultures, you don't have to talk about any of these things and don't talk about family and the world and success and failure....
Do not talk about it to any body........
And you will be very happy....
In order to be happy, to be peaceful Karima you have to learn to be alone and happy and do
your work....FOUR THINGS ARE REQUIRED OF YOU.
LOVE YOURSELF
BE HAPPY
BE ALONE
DO YOUR WORK

YOU YOURSELF EXCLUDE YOURSELF FROM EVERYTHING
DON'T GIVE ANY ONE THE POWER TO EXCLUDE YOU
KARIMA, YOU EXCLUDE THE DANGEROUS ELEMENTS FROM YOUR HAPPINESS....

AND TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH KARIMA NONE OF THIS ,"EXCLUSION " FROM
THE WORLD AND FAMILY EXISTS .....
THESE ARE ALL SELF CREATED MYTHS, FICTIONS.AND STORIES YOU
WROTE YOUR SELF
WHATS REAL IS YOU KARIMA
YOU KARIMA...YOU ARE REAL YOU ARE NOT A WORK OF FICTION
YOU ARE NOT A STORY CREATED BY YOU
YOU EXIST.....

TRY TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT.
TRY TO BE FUNCTIONAL
TRY TO BE HAPPY
TRY TO BE THANKFUL
TRY TO AMUSE YOURSELF
DON'T TAKE KARIMA SO SERIOUSLY
AND DON'T TAKE THE WORLD AND THE FAMILY SERIOUSLY
YOU, YOU KARIMA, NEEDS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY
BUT NOT SO SERIOUSLY THAT YOU WILL FORGET TO LAUGH, AND LAUGH LOUD...
YOU KARIMA EXCLUDE YOURSELF FROM THE WORLD AND DO YOUR WORK....

WORK?
WHAT WORK>
FIGURE THAT OUT....
THATS THE ONLY PROBLEM YOU HAVE KARIMA
THE ONLY PROBLEM
YOU HAVE EXCLUDED YOURSELF FROM YOUR WORK.............................
Ok?