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6月24日 War Baby I (*)
W A R B A B Y
EFECT - (War noices. War noices fade away. Some footsteps on the hays. Footsteps gathered speed and stopped. Some agitated flaps.)
WOMAN – Here it is!.. I got hold of you by the wing! Stow it, you can’t fly! Be good... So what, you seem tired as me. Don’t, you can’t fly!.. Look at you... Be good... I have to do it. Otherwise, I will die and the baby inside of me too... I have to do it even so hard. For my baby... For myself... Beautiful bird... You can’t imagine how I feel. I am nourished with wild grass or garbage for months! I am exhausted anymore. My knees... I have to... kill you!
EFECT - (Some agitated flaps.)
WOMAN – (Hopeless) No, no... I can’t do this! Never. How could I think like that?.. But... I have not to think this now. Either it will alive or me!.. (Decided) Either it will alive, or me! Either it, or me!.. (Hopeless) Either it, or me!.. Don’t look askance at me like that... What some beautiful eyes you have... What a beautiful head... What a dainty neck you have... It is just as much as my finger... as a pinkie pinky... I have to do it! It will be as easy as winking. I have to close my eyes and break your neck... with a little finger act. It happens in a flash. Yes...
EFECT - (Some agitated flaps).
WOMAN – (Hopeless) I can’t... I will never be able to do it!.. (Scary) Ah!.. Who is that?!..
EFECT - (Brush noices).
I.SOLDIER – (Fade in) (Scary) Do, do, don’t move, I shoot you!
WOMAN – A solgier!.. But you... How do you hold the gun like that?.. Its barrel looking at the ground.
I.SOLDİER – (Uneasy) Don’t close, I shoot you!.. I don’t want to shoot... anyone.
WOMAN – (Suggestive) A soldier who doesn’t like the war... Or, are you on the run? Did you run from your troop?
I.SOLDIER – If you close one more step, I will shoot you!
WOMAN – How I can hurm you?.. Look at me, I will pass out nearly, I even can’t kill this bird.
I.SOLDIER – Are you hungry?
WOMAN – Who is not hungry in this damned war?
I.SOLDIER – Don’t close! Stay there!
WOMAN – Don’t you understand, I don’t harm you. Besides, the one who has gun is you... (Gobsmacked) How scary you are.
I.SOLDIER – Will you... kill that animal?
WOMAN – I don’t know what will I do... I have no effort on my knees anymore. A side of me is hunger, the other side also a great drive... Besides, this poor being inside of me...
I.SOLDIER – Don’t incure the bird. I give you some food... and to the bird also...
WOMAN – Really, will you? Good for you soldier!
I.SOLDIER – Close here slowly... Look at me, if you try to do something, I shoot you! I don’t keep a stiff upper lift.
WOMAN – (Suggestive) You will, I believe it... Do not worry.
EFECT – (There are some war noices from behind. Some supplies noices)
I. SOLDIER – Here it is for the bird at first... Yeees... (Tender) Lo and behold, you will like these pieces.
WOMAN – (Ne kadar da acıkmış) It is so starving. It is the same as me... You may caress its head... What a sweet thing, isn’t it?
I.SOLDIER – (Timid) Yes...
WOMAN – It wants to go... I have to let it go.
EFECT – (Some flaps)
I.SOLDIER – (Calling after it) Be free always! May no one can’t do harm to you!
WOMAN – Fly beautiful bird...
I.SOLDIER – And now, for you... May you hold the gun?
WOMAN – (Confused) Your gun?.. Okay...
EFECT – (Bag zipper, some mixed voices.)
I.SOLDIER – Some rusks and... preserved meat... There was some canned beans but completely exhausted.
WOMAN – What the hell. Even it will be a banquet for me... Get your gun. It is so heavy. I didn’t know what they were so heavy. (Having an appetite, champings and gulpings.) I was eating some weeds that I could find about since long time. If it is called aliment... There are no plant, no flower anymore, huh... Everything is burning down at the double. Aren’t you hungry?
I.SOLDIER – No... Actually, I am trying to extend my accomodations period.
WOMAN – You gave me from your food. You are a good man.
I.SOLDIER – I had always some food for the others. And for the animals also... I want to give food to the all hungry animals.
WOMAN – To all of them?..
I.SOLDIER – Yes... I was cheek by jowl with cats and dogs even before the war. They never made a hostile demonstration against me... I would like to save all animals. No one shouldn’t famish. Neither people nor animals...
WOMAN – What will happen when you use up all your provisions? It is war... A time will come, you will not be able to feed on, even for yourself. And also, what can you do by yourself?.. You simply talk your head off with sorrow. You can’t give food to the all hungry animals in the world. You can’t give food to the all hungry people. You can’t be God!..
I.SOLDIER – (Sigh)
WOMAN – Anyway, it is non of my business. (Laugh) Plainly, my stomach had becamed small because of not to eat so much for a long time. I couldn’t eat this piece of rusk. Get it, maybe you find a hungry animal.
EFECT – (A bomb explosion around)
WOMAN – Oh, my god! I have to run! (Hiccup).
I.SOLDIER – We haven’t to forget the field bag! There! Hurry up!
EFECT – (Running; footsteps.)
WOMAN – (Hiccup) I have always hiccup when I dread... I hope, my babe doesn’t come to harm...
I.SOLDIER – I saw a gate... Come on!
EFECT – (Original music fade in, passing, the music fade out, firefly noises.)
WOMAN – It is weird, there are still some fireflies, isn’t it?.. What a silence... As if the war never began. As if, I will never hear some machine gun noises anymore... If there wouldn’t be some smell of burning, what a nice night.
I.SOLDIER – I got used to that sharp smell... Some people or animals can’t run away from the bombs and they are burning while alive... And trees, wild grasses, lonely houses... I hate all of these!
WOMAN – Do you run away from war?.. (Silence) Okay, I shouldn’t ask. But I have to say that you are so weird. (Happy) Ah, my babe moved!.. While I run, I was scary if something happen to my babe.
I.SOLDIER – Where are you going?
WOMAN – If you want the truth, I don’t know... Somewhere at the far away from this blood and fire... (Doubtful) Is there anywhere like that in the world now? There is war in everywhere. As if, I am in this damned war since I was born... (Hopeless) Will it go on like that always? Will I be able to raise my babe in somewhere away from war?
I.SOLDIER – Where is its father?
WOMAN – Its father?.. No father.
I.SOLDIER – Is he dead?
WOMAN – Something of the kind... We are... with him... I mean, its father and I... To tell the truth...
I.SOLDIER – If it is so sticky, you may not tell. I asked it cursorily.
WOMAN – No, no... I see no harm in it. It is a story just like thousands of the others in this war. Ah, it moved again!.. I will always keep watchful eye upon my babe after its birth. I will save it at any price. It will not be a missing child, it will not be a child who is left on its own, it will not be one of abandoned children.
I.SOLDIER – Children who have suffer... They hadn’t deserved it too.
WOMAN – My babe! I will always be with you. It is feeling me, when I palm my abdomen like this... We were collaborating in a work with its father, before the war... Actually, our relation is not a kind of thing which has a hopeful future... We were windowed at the outbreak of hostilities. One day, I knocked up against him at an uprecedented place. And we came up skin to skin soon. In other words, it happened in a flash. Then, each of us went to the other sides.
I.SOLDIER – War... The human being is doing up so many things which will not to do in normal life. Apres moi le deluge. Depredation, fire, rape... Who knows, how many war baby in the abdomens of women now...
WOMAN – Me... Aaaa... Well... Can you give me some rusk please?
I.SOLDIER – Bacon is came to an end. Now all rusk.
WOMAN – Thank you. One or two is enough. (Chewing and gulping soon) Fortunately I ran against you. Otherwise, it would be awful... I had no effort anymore. Do you tell me about yourself a little?
I.SOLDIER – I have not such an interesting story worth mentioning.
WOMAN – (Gulping) So both of us are ordinary people. But still it must be something that you mention about... Frankly, you don’t look like a warlike person.
I.SOLDIER – So many people like me guess the war is consisting of some showy uniforms and rapturous marchs. I can’t say anything for uniforms but while saying that marchs... in chorus, heart to heart, to the seventh heaven... As if I was growing different. My blood was streaming different, my heart was beating different... As if, all people under the uniforms, were all same to each other anymore. It was just one purpose for all us: To wipe out the other kind of uniformed people. It was easy to think like that with marchs.
Copyrighted by Zeynep Ankara.
To be continued on the following entry:
War Baby IIEFECT – (A melody with harmonica rather slowly)
WOMAN – You seem have fear to blow your harmonica.
I.SOLDIER – Maybe one day, I blow it as a free citizen. Who knows...
WOMAN – (Sigh) I want to survive till my old age. May my hair get grey, my skin be wrinkled, my teeth are shed... (Laugh) Besides, I reconcile myself to be a harridan, who has rheumatism, has a long tongue...
I.SOLDIER – Did you ever kill someone?
WOMAN – What?!.. No!
I.SOLDIER – I did.
WOMAN – You are a soldier.
I.SOLDIER – I did... I have killed him!
WOMAN – People are killing to each other. It is awful, even in war... But, you... You can’t harm to a being, never... I can’t believe it!.. Was it an enemy?
I.SOLDIER – (Wry smile) I was an enemy for him too.
WOMAN – When? How? Tell me some more...
I.SOLDIER – Was it one week ego, or one month?.. I am confused about time anymore. When is the night coming to an end, when is the day beginning; day and night are melding lately... But, I think, it was some time of the day’s obsolescent hours. We had just come to the march but we were dying at the double. Our only solution was to silence the machine gun wheel of the enemy. We should survive just like that way... Our commander began to one of the enthusiastic march. We joined him one by one... Then, I was the first at the zone of attack. Maybe I will be able to take a glorious war medal to my family.
WOMAN – But, if you don’t die...
I.SOLDIER – Frankly, I never thought that I could die that moment. As if a taliman had begun to save me. I was herculean... I was... like a... God. I found myself behind of the soldier who is in the machine gun wheel. I blew his brains out on the first impulse! (Confused) I killed him!
WOMAN – With this gun?
I.SOLDIER – (Anxious) Yes... The machine gun wasn’t disgorging anymore. Was everything becomed silent at that moment?.. While the soldier is tumbling on the mountain site, I was running after. I don’t know why but I was running. He stopped at the end of the side, with knock against an wizened tree. His hair got dusty. The blood in stream and some brain had run out of the hole of his head. The blood was streaming to the ground.
WOMAN – (Fearful) Stop it! Don’t tell anymore!
I.SOLDIER – There was no expression of him. That moment... I felt a displacement with him. He was an alive human being a few minutes ego, and that moment, what was a distance is it... Distant and inaccessible!.. If I give my hand, I would touch, but he... He was so far and unattainable!.. I suddenly realised a respect about him inside of me. But why was that respect, I can’t find even now... His hair was dusty. The blood which mixed with dirt... There was some crumble into dust in his eyes... His eyes were open...
WOMAN – Enough! Stop it! Stop, stop, stop!
I.SOLDIER – I am tired... I am so tired. I killed a man.
WOMAN – And yo can’t start from this fact! But... Why to me too...
I.SOLDIER – You asked me to tell. However, you had caught on that I was a draft resister at first sight. Besides, do you think that was easy to relive that all moments for me too?.. Anyway, never mind.
WOMAN – (Sigh) We have better to begin to walk anymore.
I.SOLDIER – (Blow off steam) Where will you walk?!.. There are always blood and smell of burning everywhere. Do you guess that the place where will you go is different from here?!
WOMAN – Maybe there is a place like that. Maybe! Why are you undoing my hopes?!
I.SOLDIER – Pipedreams!.. Bull shit! I had some dreams till yesterday too! Yes, I never lost my hopes till yesterday but it always hurt me. If there is no hope... The hopes must be lost, there is no point in waiting!.. (Cynical) I have hopes!..
WOMAN – (Weepy) But... If there is nothing nice that waits us tomorrow... How can you drag me into pessimism?! Was it you the one who acts free the bird?! What kind a man you are?!
I.SOLDIER – (Angry) Don’t you understand?! There is no future anymore, either for you or me, or the bird, or the baby! Everything is coming to an end, don’t you see?!
WOMAN – (Hopeless) My hopes... But... I will not listen you anymore. It must be a place without war. I will find it and bear my babe there. Now, I am going. Whether come with me or stay here.
II.SOLDIER – (Fade in) Don’t move! Both of you!
WOMAN – (Scary) (Whoop) My babe... (Hiccup)
II.SOLDIER – (On mike) Hands up! Move! No false!.. You, soldier, lay down your gun. Easy! Very easy!..
EFECT – (A voice while be left a gun to the ground)
II.SOLDIER –That’s good!
EFECT – (Footsteps on the hay)
II.SOLDIER – What is in that bag?
I.SOLDIER – Some rusks... and a daily book.
II.SOLDIER – Map and compass?
I.SOLDIER – I have map but compass...
WOMAN – Great!.. Add to my work! The soldier who lost his bearings! (Hiccup)
II.SOLDIER – Shut up! You, soldier, hurl the bag to my feet. Don’t any false!
EFECT – (A voice which the bag is falling down. Some voices while the bag is mixing.)
WOMAN – If you take all of the rusks, what will we do then?
II.SOLDIER – I am taking captive you. You will keep my commandments!
WOMAN – What of it if you take captive us in this godforsaken hole? You had lost your bearings also... Where do you expect to take away us?
II.SOLDIER – (Explode with rage) Shut your f’n mouth up! If I shoot your potatosack paunch, you will see!
WOMAN – (Scary) No, no!.. Please!..
II.SOLDIER – That’s better, mend your ways!.. Did you realise, who is your dancing partner?!
WOMAN – Yes, I realised. Please...
II.SOLDIER – Now for it, crouch there. We will stay here, till I rest.
EFECT – (Some cannom shoots away)
WOMAN – It began again...
II.SOLDIER – You say soldier... Are you coming from the place where the cannom shoots?
I.SOLDIER – Me... I don’t belong anywhere... You are trying to understand that your battery or not, but... I am not any side anymore!
II.SOLDIER – (Cynical) That means, you are a rebel... Son of a bitch! Therefore you are not their side too... (Laugh) You have a hard row to hoe buddy... Because, if they snag, both of the two side will kick you.
I.SOLDIER – (Indifferent) Here I am in your hands! Do whatever you want!
EFECT – (Machine gun; shower of lead)
II.SOLDIER – Don’t try to get my back up one more time! Otherwise, you will have no time even regret! Next time, I will zero in on you, not to the sky! Do you want to suicide, ha?!..
WOMAN – (Hiccup) Please, please...
II.SOLDIER – Yeees... You are beautiful, but... Your abdomen is very ugly.
WOMAN – Before you come into the world (hiccup), your mother’s abdomen was like that too.
II.SOLDIER – (Nervous laugh) You are smart... You are beautiful, hummm... Are you sharp witted always; or does your brain shine occasionally, ha?.. I know women such as you. Stupid and nice women... But you can’t get along to use your brain. Your beauty confuses the men just like confuses yourself too. You flicker as a spoiled lamp.
WOMAN – (Uneasy) To be a woman is an inadvertent character... like to be a man...
II.SOLDIER – Aaah, a feminist!.. I always liked to talk to you. Maybe you are qualified to speak but I can’t listen to you now.
WOMAN – (Uneasy) Why you must say that I am a woman at any rate? I don’t understand all these... It was a different war for me, before the war too.
II.SOLDIER – (Cynical) I understand you dear. You should burn the candle at both ends to prove yourself, because you were beautiful. Ah, beautiful women!.. Some of you are too intellectual as much as men but somehow you grub. You don’t know, your biggest enemy are the other women, not us.
WOMAN – However, I wanted to be friendly with my fellows always. But alas!.. My hands which reach for friendship are always kept just so... Maybe they were insistent reaches; so suspended them. But... Nevermore... Why?
II.SOLDIER – (Pedant) It is not difficult to understand this my dear... Jealousy! Tricks, dirty tricks to be first. It is all same. Null!.. Actually, you are what you are, at all events, you all are some critters which take in us employ always! Your beings are just for us... Isn’t it, soldier?
I.SOLDIER – (Quietness)
II.SOLDIER – All right... What I was saying?.. You, beautiful women, spend your energy just for make us happy. Don’t worry about what follows. We solve the worldly issues.
WOMAN – (With a depressed anger) Is that so?! By war?! You looked at women in the way you looked at the world.
II.SOLDIER – (Insulting) Don’t pump your brains for ideas like that dear...
WOMAN – Whenever you see a strong extraordinary woman, all of you try to humble her pride. You stick out like a sore thumb! You lie in wait for her weak moments!.. Yes, I was swindled so much from women in the office but you too cracked down on me to meet your surface partner?!.. (Travesty of their style) “What will you do tonight sweety?” “Let’s play hookey, I am alone at home these days.” “Don’t you want to live like a cat? Don’t flog yourself, you are what you are.” “You are fascinate, come on...”
II.SOLDIER – (Insulting) Fascinate, huh...
WOMAN – And one day, I saw myself a woman who answers to all purposes. Now, it is not difficult to have my body if you have money.
I.SOLDIER – (Frustrated) But you had said... You lay to me!..
WOMAN – (Feel pity) Poor soldier, you have a hard row to hoe in life... Yes, I am playing the role that you created anymore! (Shouting) I am like you anymore but I don’t love you! I don’t love myself too!
II.SOLDIER – Hey, calm down... Easy there! Don’t spew your anger on me! Look my dear, non of your lip. It is a simple rule: The one who poor dissolves in life. The one who strong, continues... Who is strong this moment? Me! If I want, I can destroy both of you in a flash!
I.SOLDIER – (Soliloguy) If you haven’t a gun, could you speak like that?
II.SOLDIER – What do you grumble there?!
I.SOLDIER – Non... Nothing.
II.SOLDIER – That’s better... What happened woman? What is happening?
WOMAN – (Worried) I think... The time is... Babe...
II.SOLDIER – This is the last straw! Women!
 Copyrighted by Zeynep Ankara.
To be continued on the following entrie:
War Baby IIIEFECT – (A clap of thunder)
I.SOLDIER – (Joyful) Rain!!! For the first time way back!
WOMAN – (Cry) Aaaah!..
II.SOLDIER – (Troubled) Rats! What will happen now?!
I.SOLDIER – I think I can help her. I had seen a child birth of a villager.
II.SOLDIER – Come on then. Finish off this job quickly!.. It appears that we will not be able to leave without delay.
WOMAN – (Crying) Aaah, aaaaah!..
II.SOLDIER – Knock it off, woman! Don’t cry blue murder! You will just bear a child! Besides, a bastard child!
WOMAN – (Putting down cryings) Mmmm... Mmmmmm... (Hiccup)
I.SOLDIER – Flat on your back... Flat... Bend your legs... Okay... Come on! You must help me so that I can help you. Come on!
WOMAN – (With a great effort) Iııı... Mmmm... (Hiccup)
I.SOLDIER – Yes, come on... Some more...
WOMAN – (With a great effort, pain) Iggg!..
I.SOLDIER – Yes, nearly... Come on!..
WOMAN – (Hiccup) (With a great effort) Mmmm...
EFECT – (Thunderblast), (Bomb explosion fade in)
I.SOLDIER – (Happily) Here you are! This is world... See, your baby! Look at that, it is a boy!
II.SOLDIER – (Feeling of pride) A man!.. Luckily, I will not carry off double poor critter of nature.
(Silence)
WOMAN – (Scary) But... He is not crying? Why my babe?.. Cry!.. Cry my babe... Why?!
EFECT – (Thunderblast)
WOMAN – (Almost crying) Lightnings, may you take the picture of the sorrow! (Crying with scream) My babe is not crying!
EFECT – (Rain; fade away)
I.SOLDIER – Knock it off!.. Shush, look at him... Listen...
EFECT – (Rain. Gurgle. Meaningless syllables at first; but then judging inflections. Original music. Music fade out.)
WOMAN – (Sad) My babe...
I.SOLDIER – As if he is still in the mother abdomen... It is so weird!.. What silent he is... Silent and as if... he had shut his all windows to the world.
II.SOLDIER – (Derisory) This baby is dying... He will die in any case. Let’s go!
WOMAN – (Shouting with fear) No!.. You can’t do that! I don’t go anywhere without him!
II.SOLDIER – (With boredom) Oof! Shut up!.. Don’t forget, you are my capture!
WOMAN – Can we stay here a little more? Please... Or let me take him too. I beg you!
II.SOLDIER – I let you just enough. Get up!..
I.SOLDIER – Don’t you see, the woman is groggy. What of it, if we stay a little more? Besides, if you want a prisoner of war, here I am.
II.SOLDIER – No one can say what will I do!
I.SOLDIER – (Latent derisory) All these are taking your fancy, aren’t they? You are fond of playing fast and loose with us. You were a chicken hearted I bet, a worm, formal, before the war. Do you?.. I know what makes you a “hero” this much now... But, your machine gun doesn’t spook me! Besides, if you use it, you will do me a power of good. Because I don’t want to survive anymore. To live or to go, they are all same for me now.
II.SOLDIER – Oho... The rebel started talking. Scilicet I had erred. So you want to suicide? Okay then...
WOMAN – Please don’t! (Tearful) Don’t, please don’t! (She cries her heart out)
OLD MAN – (Away) Black goat?.. Black goat?..
II.SOLDIER – Shush woman! Both of you!..
(Quietness)
OLD MAN – (Fade in) Black goat?.. Where are you, my wayward goat?!..
II.SOLDIER – Hands up!
OLD MAN – What the hell is that?!..
II.SOLDIER – I said “hands up!”
OLD MAN – (Derisory) Why?
II.SOLDIER – Don’t you see, what is in my hand Old Man?!
OLD MAN – (Unconcerned) I see... How I can’t see that huge thing?..
II.SOLDIER – Well, then?
OLD MAN – (Unconcerned) This is your war... Not mine. Black goat?.. Where are you, wayward?!
II.SOLDIER – I said “Hands up!” Are you crazy, or drunk?!
OLD MAN – What of it? One way or another. You will act same to me for both of them. You will elevate your voice, as if I am deaf! You will gesture, as if I am dumb! You will leer to my face, as if I am blind! You will rubberneck, as if I am from an opposite world. But, I will read an indistinct admiration on your pupils. See, this is my concession. I tell the plain truth, not bat an eye.
II.SOLDIER – (Derisory) Whew, whippersnapper! The Old Man guess himself on the stage.
OLD MAN – Pooh!..
II.SOLDIER – If your show finished, hands up!
OLD MAN – (Unconcerned) Black goat?.. Where are you? Show up anymore!
EFECT – (Machine gun shoots)
WOMAN – (Hiccup)
II.SOLDIER – Lesson one! You must obey me! If not, I will kill you the next time... Dirty gaga!
OLD MAN – (Calm) I exercised my mind always. Therefore, I didn’t depressed as much as becoming senile yet.
WOMAN – Don’t go flat against his orders Old Man... (Hiccup)
I.SOLDIER – Let him talk in the way his heart desires.
WOMAN – (Hiccup) I have evil forebodings. I feel it, very bad things...
II.SOLDIER – Shut up woman! You, scaremonger crow!.. Old Man, you go aside!
OLD MAN – What are you doing man?.. To use force will not appal the world, as your guess. You disgusted this senescent world. The only thing that it needs, knowledge... and creative thoughts. Not a thing as in your hand. To use force is not appal the world!.. What I say more? What can I do for all these, hah? You go your way that you know right but maybe that way is not right as you guess. Now... Get out of my way! This is your war, not mine.
II.SOLDIER – Stop! If you take a step more, I shoot! Will I learn the truth from a lame old man?!
OLD MAN – (Offended) My young allies... My gods that I can’t serve... When will you understand that you were lifting up the hell against the world like this way? The guns that you threw on the others will go back to yourself one day surely, when will you understand this? The world is tired, the world is sick, the world is disgruntled anymore...
II.SOLDIER – Ops! Are there just young people in this world?
OLD MAN – I feel sick about all people which started or continued the war, is it okay now? Get out of my way! I don’t fear about you! I lived my life, it is no matter if I die now or later... You destroy to each other with your firearms, destroy nature. Play with your toys to the bitter end. But don’t disturb innocent people which don’t want to play this dirty game anymore.
WOMAN – Bravo Old Man!
I.SOLDIER – Yes! We don’t want all these blood and fire!
WOMAN – You finished the world! My babe seems that he wasn’t born in fact. As if he is staying still in my abdomen. He too doesn’t want this world like that way.
II.SOLDIER – Your “babe” is dead. So you guess he is alive?
WOMAN – Not dead! My babe is breathing!..
I.SOLDIER – Let us go.
II.SOLDIER – Don’t talk, especially you!.. Keep your words for military tribunal. You will see...
I.SOLDIER – Hah, war; hah, military; huh tribunal!.. The war is inside of me!
OLD MAN – Look, none of us interested in your war, as you see.
II.SOLDIER – But... The gun is in my hand, not yours. So you are in this war too take it or not.
OLD MAN – Ah, you despots!.. Love, peace and friendship are powerful more than wars, conflicts and terror. You too will see it one day. Just ash remains from the fire. Or maybe there is an other world you will live!.. You defiled the air, water and earth. You didn’t put up with it, defiled the human relations. And now, you are destroying everything!.. Killers!
II.SOLDIER – (Derisory) Life is this, old man... This is life!
OLD MAN – No... This is not life! This is life you defiled!
II.SOLDIER – Yes! We are living in a world you defiled!
WOMAN – You are defiling everything you touched.
I.SOLDIER – Shut up! All of you!
OLD MAN – (As if talking to himself) I contended with all these in my life. I consecrate my life to my ideas. I am not interested in anymore. Loveless people!.. “This is life”, huh! No, birdbrains! The world is not this!
II.SOLDIER – That’s it!.. I will kill you first! But you will quake in your shoes before.
OLD MAN – Fool!.. What can fear change? The only feeling is love that can change and improve.
WOMAN – Yes! Only love can change! (Hopeless) But... Even love can’t give life to my babe...
I.SOLDIER – Love is a bird which has tired wings anymore.
II.SOLDIER – Love words, pooh!.. (Shout) Stupids! Love, ha? What used for? The important thing is power! Either mentally or bodily! Love is a stupid game whose can’t be strong like you!
WOMAN – (Shout) You are filled with harmful ideas! And you are trying to poison us now!
OLD MAN – If there was not love, your power of mind and body are fit for nothing. Say, ha, what purpose?
I.SOLDIER – (Cynical) Just for destroy...
WOMAN – Yes! Go your way! We don’t need your “wise” ideas!.. We want to survive!.. Every being needs to survive in the world!.. You can’t humiliate us; that’s why I am a woman, he is an old man, this soldier doesn’t love the war! Above all, your words about my babe who is in trouble between life and death are making me deeply sad. (Weepy) He is not dead... Go with your gun anymore!
II.SOLDIER – (Shout) To go?!.. I will kill all of you! The powerfull one will survive! The powerfull one has right to survive!
I.SOLDIER – Who is the powerful? You?..
II.SOLDIER – (Shout) Shut up! Especially you, woman! You had better to look at your freak, instead of talk. (Nervous laugh) Is he breath or not?!
WOMAN – I will shout, yes! I am elevating my voice, I am right. But you are not right too, while you are shouting!.. (Sad) And... He is not a freak, he is my babe! Even if he is a freak, he is my babe!
II.SOLDIER – What a stupid woman you are!.. I made a mistake, you are a really silly woman! Are you saying “baby” for this freakish?
I.SOLDIER – Enough!
OLD MAN – You are trying to have us listen by force of arms!
WOMAN – (Weepy) It is my babe... My babe...
II.SOLDIER – (Disgusted) Actually you are defiling the world!.. You, mushroom head women! You are bearing so many freakish children and sending to the world, besides trying to make them alive! You are keeping them like animals!.. If you spent your energy in a proper way, the world would be better.
I.SOLDIER – Proper way?.. I bet, there is a Zingaro, or Jewish, maybe a natural fool in your family which disturbs your feelings... Or maybe you have a disabled or a retarded child... Why not? Maybe you are keeping it from everybody.
EFECT – (Machine gun shoots, then absolute silence)
II.SOLDIER – (Exhausted) I will kill all of you...
I.SOLDIER – You see, either your machine gun or your words don’t frighten us anymore. You must find an other thing...
OLD MAN – Poorman...
I.SOLDIER – You are so poor...
II.SOLDIER – You are poor!
OLD MAN – (Bitter laugh)
II.SOLDIER – You are deplorable. Anybody is deplorable who has no right to live!
WOMAN – My babe will survive... I will make him alive.
II.SOLDIER – (Decided) Not enough place for creakies!
OLD MAN – What is your problem? Can’t we share either little or much?.. Why this too much hate? And why do you want to add us to this hate?
I.SOLDIER – Look at you... You are in suffer. Your feelings will destroy yourself too.
II.SOLDIER – (Tired) Only nemesis can survive... Only they have right to survive...
Copyrighted by Zeynep Ankara.
To be continued on the following entrie:
War Baby IV(Quietness)
EFECT – (War noises fade in away)
WOMAN – (Hectic) Please, don’t! If you touch my babe, how can I live then?! Or, kill me first! (Hiccup) Please feel for us! Feel...
II.SOLDIER – (Tired) No feel!.. I can’t let you to exploit me with it...
WOMAN – Old Man, touch this poor soldier’s heart of!
OLD MAN – He doesn’t know how he open his heart and look at it, what can I do?
WOMAN – (Crying) Soldier, can’t you stop him? Soldier knows the jargon of the soldier. Talk to him. (Hiccup)
I.SOLDIER – We, both of us are soldiers but our styles are different.
WOMAN – (Crying) Please, do something... Please!
I.SOLDIER – Keep a stiff upper lip... We hang together in this way.
II.SOLDIER – Well, lo... The love all of you didn’t make one machine gun.
WOMAN – (Hiccup, crying) This pain is unbearable.
II.SOLDIER – (Derisory) Do not bother woman... Think like that, I will be do him a who of good. It is good to die for him instead of to live like this.
WOMAN – (To cry her heart out)
II.SOLDIER – The life that I got him will infuse new life into me!
OLD MAN – Oh my God!..
WOMAN – No!.. Why you are so cruel like this?
I.SOLDIER – (Explode with rage) You will not be able to kill anyone! No!
EFECT – (Thud)
II.SOLDIER – Ah!..
EFECT – (Plonk)
I.SOLDIER – (With a repressed anger) If you have not honour, you have not conscience either!
OLD MAN – You killed him...
WOMAN – My babe got shut of him! We survived!
I.SOLDIER – I was trying to close that stone for minutes.
EFECT - (War noices away from time to time, a bomb noice fade in)
WOMAN – Let’s go!.. Please!
I.SOLDIER – (Depressed) I killed someone more.
WOMAN – Let’s go, please!
I.SOLDIER – May someone tells me that I was right...
WOMAN – We have to fly anymore!..
OLD MAN – I will find my black goat. I have to find it. Stupid thing!.. It is hoaxing me as its mind.
I.SOLDIER – (Distressed) Why I don’t feel guilty about it? Why?!
OLD MAN – Who knows where did it hide?.. My black goat?! Show your face! Do you want to be a dinner for someone?
I.SOLDIER – But he had deserved it!
WOMAN – They will kill us all!
I.SOLDIER – (Distressed) But... Still... Had I right to kill him?
OLD MAN – Black goat, you are worst from human! I wish they slough and hang you to a tree! Come to your senses buddy!
I.SOLDIER – He wanted to kill the baby, and... If I didn’t kill him, he would kill us!..
WOMAN – (Shout) What is happening to you?! Why you don’t understand, we have to go?! They will find us!
I.SOLDIER – (As if surface) Yes... We have to go...
OLD MAN – (Sad) My black goat?..
WOMAN – Come on old man!.. Let it go anymore! We have to go!
OLD MAN – (Lost) Finally, they included me their game... Yes, we have to go.
WOMAN – Let’s go then! (Kindly) My babe, I will never unhand you from now on.
EFECT – (War noices away. Hectic footsteps on the brush. Original music fade in, passing, original music fade out.
WOMAN – (Tired) Please take five... And also there are no gun voices about here.
OLD MAN – They had finished their job here since... There is no tree even one which hadn’t wounded. There is no grass plot even very small to sit on... The fire of nature... The fire inside of me...
WOMAN – My babe... When will you awake?.. Ooof, my back... Soldier, may I put my head on your knee?.. Ooof!.. I have fear to sleep!
EFECT – (A melody with harmonica on mike, then fade away)
WOMAN – How long have you been running away from people Old Man?
OLD MAN – Dates are not important. Anyhow, the reality which is lived is all the same. Just decors are changing... Everything is same... All same!
WOMAN – Who knows, how many wars you have seen so far.
OLD MAN – (Wry smile) Even their reasons were different, all wars finished by the same token. Just madness and pain... They knocked their power like the clink glasses. If they had known how to clink glasses properly, the glasses wouldn’t have been broken. They must be raise just for friendship.
WOMAN – My eyelids like bullions. I have to sleep...
OLD MAN – I will tell you a war story now... We don’t lose to kip in this way... A woman and a man find a thing that they never seen before, while working in the field. They fear first and don’t touch it. Then they lose to their worry and take that thing with avoid. They turn about the thing but don’t understand what is that, fob off. The thing that falls down explode.
WOMAN – Was that a gun?
OLD MAN – Yes... They fear so much, pause and then curl up to the ground... They back to the field working days after. But they have been looking at the gun with suspect sometimes.
WOMAN – There! It is human... He either fears or wonders.
OLD MAN – Finally, they stop and gaze it . And... They reach for the gun at the same moment. After some tryings, they learn how to pull the trigger. Bang!.. Bang, bang, bang! They have not been fearing the gun anymore. But leads come to an end, so they fob off it.
WOMAN – I wish they would bury it.
OLD MAN – They begin to work on the field as before. Sometime, some flaps which belong to a big bird filter. The other flaps join them. They look at the sky with worry... Some guns have been falling abundantly from the sky.
WOMAN – No!
OLD MAN – After a little confusion, they stock some guns on each of their sides brush.
WOMAN – (Frustrate) I see... They are two sides anymore.
OLD MAN – They walk to each other the gun on their hands. When they came just on the middle of the field, they forewarn about their borders, then stand back. Thus the war has begun. The gun noises take the words place. But both of them die in the end. (Sigh) That’s all.
EFECT – (The melody with harmonica fade out. Hush. A bird who has an ugly noise sings with joy, flaps.)
WOMAN – I got hungry.
I.SOLDIER – We have no food. We forgat the remainder of them with hurry there.
OLD MAN - My black goat... Did they catch you? Did they cook you and eat you?
WOMAN – (Sleepiness) I can’t keep my eyes open... What if we kip a little... Kip a little... What if...
EFECT – (Original music. Passing. Cheeps, arm noises, running water etc, nature noises.)
WOMAN – (With surface) Iııı... (Yawn) Ow... my back!.. (Confused) I can’t believe my eyes!.. Old Man, Soldier.. Wake up!
OLD MAN – (Dopey) What?..
I.SOLDIER – (Dopey) Ha? Why did you awake?..
WOMAN – (Confused) Look at... these!..
OLD MAN – (Awake) What?.. Where did all those blasted trees, field go? Oh my god!..
I.SOLDIER – What nice birds! Varicolored!.. What a beautiful color of the sky!
WOMAN – Look at these flowers! (Taking a deep breath) What a nice smell this is!..
I.SOLDIER – I had never seen a squeaky brook like this.
EFECT – (Nature noises fade away. A goat bleat fade in)
OLD MAN – Is that my black goat? (Happily) That’s him!..
WOMAN – Look at that, it is running to you directly... And a child is following it.
I.SOLDIER – Hey, kid!
OLD MAN – (Tender) Where have you been, my obstinate goat?!
CHILD – (Fade in) Did you call me?..
WOMAN – He speaks with our language...
CHILD – Are there any other languages?
I.SOLDIER – Look... We are hungry. If you give us some buns that in your basket, we give you this money.
CHILD – Money?.. What money?
WOMAN – We can give you just this much. You know, this war...
CHILD – What does war mean?
I.SOLDIER – (Confused) Don’t you know?
CHILD – No... If you are hungry, here is some buns, as much as you liked.
WOMAN – We thank you... so much!
OLD MAN – My black goat! What heavenly, to live now!
WOMAN – (A bit in her mouth) Can you depict the way? We don’t want to close to the enemy line.
CHILD – (Confused) Line?.. I think you had a bad dream. You are talking just like people of the history.
I.SOLDIER – People of the history?..
CHILD – Yes... Once upon a time, people had created some destructive tools and killed to each other. Nature had suffered from all this chaos. These dark ages were the worst times of the world.
WOMAN – (Exciting) But what happened then? How did all that darkness come to an end. How come, what did happen then for such a beautiful world like this?..
CHILD – How could it be?.. Think, you know that...
I.SOLDIER – We know that?..
CHILD – Anyway, I have to go... Good bye.
WORDS COLLIDE: OLD MAN – Good bye kid.
I.SOLDIER – Good bye...
WOMAN – Take care.
OLD MAN – (Fervid) Heeey!.. My black goat, I missed you so much!
WOMAN – Look at here... My babe is moving...
I.SOLDIER – As if he is waking up...
EFECT – (Nature noises fade away. A newly born child crying)
WOMAN – (Happily crying) My babe is crying! He is crying!..
EFECT – (Nature noises. The crying of baby and woman fade out. A freedom harmonica melody).
O R I G I N A L M U S I C
T H E E N D
Copyrighted by Zeynep Ankara.
(*) Behçet Necatigil Radio Play, first rank, 1989.
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