SMOKE// JOHN// KIM DAVIES
This monologue has been spliced from dialogue with added clarifications for specificity.
“JULIE , a privileged college student, ducks into the kitchen for a cigarette at her very first BDSM party, she encounters JOHN, a veteran on this scene and, as it turns out, her artist fathers intern. They push each others buttons and boundaries as this powerful, sexually charged play drives towards its shocking finish.”
JOHN
You know...you know, if you just call up a pet store, and ask for like 300 goldfish or whatever, they don’t want to sell them to you. Because they think you’re using them for animal experiments or something perverted - or whatever- / I was like, “Umm this is for a major American artist,” sure and they were like “You’re shitting us”. Like so much fucking attitude. / But hell yeah, I got the goldfish. Online. It’s like 30 dollars for 100. / It was a huge pain in the ass. / Well, once he’s done [shooting the pictures], he doesn’t want 300 goldfish. He doesn’t even want one in a bowl. So I had to call the company and ask if I could ship back these goldfish - no, i’m serious. Because what can you do? And they were like no, go fuck yourself. So then I call up the pet store - the same assholes that gave me all the attitude in the first place, and I was like, I want to sell you 300 goldfish. And they were also like, fuck you. But they would take them for free. And so now I have to get like 300 goldfish to union square so I cabbed it. With 300 goldfish downtown and - are you an animal rights person? Because I gotta be honest with you, some of those goldfish did not survive the trip.
