PART NINE:
JOHNNY'S LAMENT
(fade from black. Johnny's in his home lying down on a bed)
"what the hell is happening to me I keep hearing the dough boys but they're dead so it can't be them" then he got up and walked to a wall covered with knives and saws "do you think I'm crazy Zac?"
"ou aadddyy arrdda aakaarr"
"oh that's right I cut out your tongue because I got sick of you calling me a 'cracker' and a 'bloody mother fucker' just nod if you agree and shake your head if you don't agree, ok" he said with a smile
then Zac nodded
"so do you think I'm crazy?" Zac nodded again then Johnny crossed the room and opened a draw took out a nail gun and shot him in the abdomen and put it back in the draw and went back to his knives "does your hair hurt?"
Zac reluctantly nodded again and Johnny reached for a scalpel and then cut his hair off with skin still attached while trying to scream then Johnny said "this bores me I'm finished with you" and started the buzz saw and removed his head then sighed when he finished "why is this so damn boring...."
then Reverend Meat came in the room phasing through the wall "I've been listening to your complaints and I can answer that for you"
"you can! tell meeee!"
"you have been giving in to all but one of your urges even though you try resisting them in the end it's futile"
"tell me!, tell me what I lack!" said Johnny shaking Reverend Meat
"it's love! the one emotion that you keep bottled up, the more you bottle it the higher chances of the dough boys have of coming back!"
"so all I have to do is get back with Devi and they will go away?"
"exactly, fulfill your lust for...well lust and they will go away"
"are you sure you don't work for the dough boys?"
"yes, if I worked for them when they came back I'd be out of a job and as I said before I have a hamburger"
"well the dough boys I can hear them more and more frequently I can't see them but it's just a matter of time, I need to do what Reverend Meat said...I need..." "I need...Devi...only she can help me I have failed in my quest to relinquish my emotions the dough boys are winning but I would rather be haunted by Reverend Meat than have the dough boys back I can't live with out my emotions I'm sorry Mr. Samsa I've failed you" just then as Johnny picked up a piece of paper and started writing a letter a swarm of cockroaches came into the room and dissolved into a man who looks like he is a used car sales man in a white suit
"who the hell are you wait were you a pile of cockroaches a minute ago" said Johnny looking over the top of the table at him and decided to ignore him instead of killing him and went back to his letter
"come on Johnny just because you can hear the dough boys doesn't mean you failed it just means you aren't trying hard enough?"
"go away..."
"what was that?"
"go the fuck away you pile of bug shit actually just stay there" Johnny then went into the kitchen and looked various boxes in what would pass as a kitchen if the sink wasn't full of bloody and rusty knives and the table wasn't nailed to the window "I'm sure Edgar had some when I met him, ahh there it is!" Johnny then came out of the kitchen with his hands behind his back "boy do I have a surprise for you Mr. Samsa!"
"what could you do that would surprise me?"
"this!" then brought out a can of bug spray and sprayed him in the eyes
"gahhhh, what the hell did you do that for?!" then Mr. Samsa's head started falling apart then Johnny sprayed his mouth arms and legs
"I'll leave you alone for now just think about what you are going to say in the future" then Mr. Samsa burst into a pile of squirming cockroaches on the floor that started scattering away if they weren't dieing then Johnny dropped the bug spray on the floor and went back to finish the letter for Devi:
(see deviation appropriately named Devi's letter)
to Devi-
I'm going to go into the city
to where I last saw you
the darkness is throwing a cloth upon my mind
the city is so black and empty
Woe is me with out you
the birds sing no more
yet the voices scream ever so loudly
Without you I cannot be
without you I am lost
without you I count the minutes without you
with you I wished time stood still
and then I tried making it happen
I now realize something but now it's too late
That it wasn't worth doing it
as I sit here alone
I scream in pain from the wound in my heart
yet it's now silent and without life
but the voices scream even louder
and breathing becomes oh so hard for me
without you I count the seconds without you
they aren't worth it without you by my side
please forgive me Devi I fear I'm going into a
void that I can not escape please tell me if you
still care about me in the tiniest bit at all
-Johnny c.
(Johnny then got up and left the house to send the letter. Fade to black)
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