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Curtains
Setting: A couple standing in front of a Grandfather clock in the passage.
Characters:
Wife (W): Dishevelled and dressed in pyjamas and slippers.
Husband (H): A party animal (especially without the wife), with tie askew.
Dialogue:
W: (folding arms over chest) Two arms are meeting overhead,
but nowhere a leg’s in sight.
Watchful of what’s being said,
as it’s always in the right.
H: (slurring) I shall freely surrender
as I am legless. Don’t rile.
I have been on a bender;
surely you can clock my dial.
W: At least tell me what I am,
or do you not give a—
H: It is midnight, my Diddles,
and far too late for riddles …
W: So, NOW you can tell the time?
Staying out late doesn’t rhyme!
H: What’s for supper?
Epilogue: It was touch-and-go whether it would have been curtains for the poor husband.
Copyright ©
Suzette Richards
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