Monday 21 January 2013

The sidewalk's Romeo and Juliet

KRISTEN:
 It’s about time the detractors stop seeing us as mere fixtures on the sidewalk bench, or  Idlers, and start seeing us as a potent force to be reckon with......

KATE:
  ....achievers, etc, etc
                               


EXT.  SIDEWALK  STALL/BENCH – DAY


ZOKAYA and his sidewalk duds munch on POPCORN while listening to weather warnings about the big freeze. Through their individual BINOCULARS, they watch the exchange between, sidewalk sweeper, BUSH and sidewalk vendor, MICHELLE.

BUSH
You have no idea how magnificent, how exotic you are to me. This poise, this symmetry, this refinement. I'm mute with awe over your beauty. Look at me, a mere sidewalk sweeper, holding the delicate hand of this luminous creature at her stall.


KATE
(guffawing)
                            
"Romeo" trying to sweep "Juliet" off her feet.


ZOKAYA

I think "Romeo" has been watching Ivan Turgenev's Two Women at the sidewalk theatre. Without characters like him, the sidewalk would be a dull place.
                   


MICHELLE

Oh, GEORGE, sorry, I mean BUSH, I've been so restless and irritable since you swept last week. I couldn’t wait for today to return, so I could see you again. BUSH!


THE SIDEWALK DUDS BURST INTO A CACKLE


KRISTEN

I think you were right Zokaya...There's no smoke without fire.  Or is it a mere coincidence?.....She speaks like a character in Two Women.


KATE
(teasingly)

WHAT! Are you dating TWO women?



KRISTEN:

Shut up or I’ll scratch you!


ZOKAYA

Shut the hell up! You LEMMINGS. I’m trying to watch this.



BUSH

 I feel so centred when I see you each week. Seeing you is the only happiness I need on this sidewalk. You got to believe me.... I'd die inside if knew you were restless and irritable without me.


KATE

This is really good. There could be no repeat; I’m glad I did not miss it.



MICHELLE

 I'm okay now, BUSH. Hundreds of female vendors and pedestrians on the sidewalk are just jealous of me because you hand-picked me over them.

KRISTEN
(disdainfully)

This is a load of rubbish! Soon they will take off their clothes and have lots of sex. This is not the kind of thing I wanna watch in broad day light....There must  be something more exciting happening on the sidewalk now. LOOK! How about  those two FASHIONABLE women walking towards us? Get out the camera's Zokaya.

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