Scene Nine
On the road to Shreaneck. DEEDELUS, MILLIAMA, SOMA and MAXIMUSH
appear again from stage right.
MILLIAMA
How ya feelin’ now?
(DEEDELUS shakes his head, indicates his stomach is still doing
flip-flops.)
SOMA
Hey, gal. That’s the fifth time you asked him.
MILLIAMA
So?
SOMA
You crazy, gal! One minute you rasslin’ him, then the next you warnin’
him to watch his schluckin’ step.
MILLIAMA
I wasn’t talkin’ about rasslin’. He can rassle me all he wants. I was
talkin’ about that meltin’ schlit.
MAXIMUSH
Say, aren’t those the funga men?
SOMA
Where?
MAXIMUSH
Straight up the road.
SOMA
Hey, funga men!
(ACULEUS and ANTARES hurry on pushing their cart.)
ACULEUS
You folks going to Shreaneck?
DEEDELUS
Yes.
ANTARES
You better turn back. Shreaneck’s been captured by the K.P.s.
MILLIAMA
Schlit on a stick!
DEEDELUS
But we’ve got to get to the library at Marianat.
ACULEUS
If you value your lives you’d better head back for Clittsburgh.
DEEDELUS
But we can’t!
MAXIMUSH
Don’t be a fool, Deedelus. I’ve seen other cities captured by the K.P.s.
Have you any idea what they do to cubers and coners, not to mention crescenters?
MILLIAMA
How about Isoscoleses?
ANTARES
Anyone who ain’t a K.P. is in for it.
ACULEUS
However…
DEEDELUS
However what?
ACULEUS
There is a way. It’s chancy, and it’ll cost you, but…
DEEDELUS
What? Tell us!
(ACULEUS flips open the lid of the cart and plucks out four
Panda suits.)
BLACKOUT
