Wednesday, September 22, 2004



INT. HARLEM APARTMENT - NIGHT

Lawrence walks in with a borrowed digital camera in one
hand and a box of chicken in the other.

LAWRENCE
Tonight I will photograph
everything I own for E-Bay.

INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

Lawrence eats and checks his email. One from Hilary. The
chicken is bad, the email is good.

LAWRENCE
It's been a few days. I can
check again. Like a reward for
not checking for a few days.

Lawrence pulls up Dawn's web site. Two new poems.

He reads them looking for traces of himself. Comes up
empty.

Lawrence pulls up Cross's yahoo email inbox.

1 message waiting.

The chicken turns in Lawrence's stomach.

Click.

It's from Dawn. It reads...

"Subject: For you and you.

I wrote a letter to sarah and then I really really wrote
and I found you in the hay, two of you. That's exactly
where you were. Out & out.

dawn"

Lawrence runs to the bathroom. Sounds of puking can be
heard as dawn's letter blinks away on screen.

After some rinsing, he returns.

LAWRENCE
What the fuck am I going to do
now. Fucking vague woman! She's
torturing me. She must know.
She must know and she's using
this to draw me out or kick me
while I'm down because she knows
I check. She must know I check
daily. This is why she keeps
that website. It's a weapon.
She's very smart.
She's not so wide open to assault
after all. She hides in the
merlons of her vagaries and fires
back arrows through the crenels
of time and those spaces she sees
in my fiction. I need to take
these pictures. I can't deal
with her right now. I want so
much to deal with her right now
but I can't

ERICA (V.O.)
Everything always happens at
once.

LAWRENCE
Hilary. You answered most of the
burning question well when I
asked what you would think if I
were that black man. But now I
pose the real question. If I
were that black man. After you
were finished laughing at
yourself and having a time.
Would you continue this
relationship with me. Would you
even be able to? I'll write you
a real one when I'm done with
eBay. Please help me.

Lawrence turns to the camera, breaking the forth wall. He
writes on the lens, in reverse mirror.

"www.her-website-address-withheld.com"

LAWRENCE
Treat us like animals in the
wild. Observe our mating habits
but do not interfere.

Lawrence closes his web browser. He runs out to the living
room, camera in hand, to photograph his entire life.

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