LITTLE BOY is once again alone.
LITTLE BOY (Singing)
Sometimes at night I sing to myself
When there's nobody else but me
Sometimes at night I sing to myself
When there's someplace that I'd rather be
And I sit and I sing to the moon on a string....
Suddenly we here a squeaky sound and in comes PETRA. She is
pulling behind her a funky looking machine. From the machine
comes many tubes connected to PETRA’s arms and to two helmets
hanging from the machine.
LITTLE BOY Hi!
PETRA What!? Oh hey. What's up?
LITTLE BOY Oh, I used to be going somewhere but I gave up. Now
I'm in hell.
PETRA I see.
LITTLE BOY What are you doing?
PETRA Me, I'm making a deal with the devil.
LITTLE BOY Really? You're gonna make a deal?!
PETRA Yeah, you know, that same deal that they all made: Spike Jones, Hendrix . . . Joplin,
Belushi,
LITTLE BOY Can I go with you? It'd be really great!
PETRA
Oh wait, no man, you don't get it.
I don't need to do anything.
I don't need to play anything.
I just need to be myself. Just let my inner nature run its course.
Boredom is my drug. I thrive on it. It propels me.
Life's a joke. La la la life is a joke.
LITTLE BOY It's a joke?
PETRA Life is a joke. Death is a joke. It's like Zen. get it? Inside out. Take everything I say
and don't believe it. It's the only way to fight the man. Skin?
LITTLE BOY OK I don't believe you.
PETRA Right.... You got it. You know what I'm sayin'
LITTLE BOY I think so. . . I see where you're comin from..
PETRA No actually you don't. Look, If you had said "that's so stupid man, cut out the crap"
you would have been closer, see but you answered wrong.
LITTLE BOY Which may be right.
PETRA Shut up, man! Just kiddin' that's cool. Paradoxes are cool.
LITTLE BOY That's a cool hat.
PETRA (feels his head) That's no hat man, It's moss. It's frickin' moss. Whoa. I need a bath.
She begins to pump up the machine.
LITTLE BOY What you doin'?
PETRA Pumpin' up the machine. The everexpanding experience machine. Here take this.
(offers him the other helmet)
LITTLE BOY Uh...no thanks.
PETRA No? What? That's the man talkin'
If you're going to give it up, you might'z well live it up. Right?
She dons the helmet and swoons from the head rush.
LITTLE BOY I guess.
PETRA What else have we got to look forward to?
LITTLE BOY Not much I guess
PETRA Why not get a little lift. An experience. Anytime I
want it I just make a wish. And it comes true. I just make a wish. Go ahead, just make a
wish, Man. (Gives Little Boy the other helmet)
LITTLE BOY What kind of wish.
PETRA A deathwish.
LITTLE BOY
I wish that I could be home with my Mom.
PETRA No, man, how about something exciting. You can see anything. Go anywhere.
Anything's possible. (She puts the BOY’s helmet on his head. Psychedelic animation
begins. Dancers enter as swirling dream images.)
Deathwish
come on little boy now close your eyes
come on little boy now visualize
take a ride on the bean
through the purple and green
through the semi electric syphoning spleen
to the dream land dream where the whip-or-whill scream
take a ride on the wonderful heavy-experience
ever-expanding-mind machine
Everybody make a deathwish
Everybody make a deathwish
Everybody make a deathwish
then blow out the candles and poof you're dead
then blow out the candles and poof you're dead
PETRA/CHORUS
Come on everybody now close your eyes
Come on everybody now visualize
You got nothing to fear
when your heads in gear
you got a sweet sweet voice
singing in your ear
ain't nobody gonna bother you when you're here
in a dream on the wonderful heavy experience
ever-expanding mind machine
LITTLE BOY (removing helmet)
Don’t worry Mom, and don’t worry Dad
cause there’s nothing I’d like better
than to give you all a kiss
‘cause I miss
‘cause I miss you miss you
PETRA replaces helmet on his head and he falls back into dream state.
PETRA
everybody get a good seat now
everybody watch me hit the fan
people said that I was gone
people said that I was fried
didn’t care if I lived
didn’t care if I died
but they never had a chance to see me dance
never saw me on the wonderful heavy experience
ever expanding mind
Take a ride on the wonderful heavy experience
ever expanding mind
PETRA and LITTLE BOY chase after the moving images around them, which disappear
as they try to grab them. The lights fade as PETRA and LITTLE BOY finish their lines.
PETRA If you see my fairy godmother. Tell her I want a new wish.
LITTLE BOY OK.