MY DEBILITATING COCAINE ADDICTION

                                    # 20 in a series of daily one-act, one scene plays


[ACT I, Scene I: a man faces toward audience]

MAN: I feel I must apologize for not contacting you sooner about my RSVP. I would have you see, but all my time has been taken up. Taken up by my debilitating cocaine addiction. I really would liked to attend your garden party. Truly I would, but you see, I will be busy. Busy with my debilitating cocaine addiction. Oh, I can imagine how you will truss up the gazebo in lights, and the servants will be attired in the finest of livery. The food will be a sumptuous spread, and the air will carry the sound of tinkling laughter and clinking champagne glasses, but I can't dwell on the image long. I can't dwell on it long you see, for I have no attention span; no attention span due to my debilitating cocaine addiction.
       I may try and stop by later.  Oh I'll be about anyway, wandering strange streets late,  and doing quite frankly whatever it takes to raise money.  Money, I need, in which to stave off my debilitating cocaine addiction. Perhaps I will swing in to admire the silverware. Admire it so much that I will have to leave with it. Leave with it and then sell it. Sell it, you see, to procure more cocaine, cocaine for my debilitating cocaine addiction. See you soon! 


                                         (curtain)