marvalyn almost maine lines first half of scene)

(Beginning of show)

OW DAMMIT!

(Hit Steve)

Oh, no!! I’m sorry I’m sorry oh I didn’t see you are you okay?

STEVE: yeah…

No you’re not!! I just smashed you with the ironing board! I wasn’t even looking are you hurt?

STEVE: No.

Oh you must be!! I just smashed you! Where’d u get you?

STEVE: In the head.

In the head! Oh come here are you okay?

STEVE:Is there any blood?

No

STEVE:Any discoloration?

No

STEVE: Then I’m okay.

Well. I’m gonna get you some ice.

STEVE: No. I can’t feel things like that.

Like what?

STEVE:Like when I get smashed in the head with an ironing board I don’t get hurt.

What?

STEVE:I can’t feel pain

Oh jeezum crow what the hell have I done to you!

STEVE:Nothin

You’re talking loopy listen to you goin on about not being able to feel pain that’s delusional I’ve knocked the sense right outta you!

STEVE:No I’m okay.

Shh listen I was gonna be a nurse so I know you’re hurt you just took a good shot to the head and that’s serious.

STEVE:No it’s not serious. I don’t think ironing boards could really hurt your head cause see… ironing boards aren’t on list of things that can hurt you.

What is…

STEVE: Plus there’s no blood or discoloration from where I got hit so…

Well you can be hurt and not be bruised or bloody,

STEVE:And my list is pretty reliable cause my bother Paul’s is helping me make it. And I can prove it to you; see I bet if I took this ironing board like this and hit you with it that it wouldn’t hurt you see? //that didn’t hurt

OW

STEVE: Oh!

Ow what the hell was that why did you do that?

STEVE: Oh I’m sorry did that hurt?

God

STEVE:Oh it did didn’t it??

Ow!

STEVE:Oh I didn’t think it would cause see ironing boards are not in my list of things that hurt you but gosh maybe hey should be on list because—

What are you talking about?

STEVE:I have a list of things that can hurt you, my brother Paul is helping me make it and ironing aren’t on it.

Well that ironing board hurt me.

STEVE:Yeah

So you should add it to your list,

STEVE: Should I be afraid of ironing boards

Well if someone swings it at your head and wallops you with it yes.

STEVE:Well it’s not— I have a list of things to be afraid of too and ironing boards are not on this list either.

Well they shouldn’t be really.

STEVE: No?

No, you should be afraid of ironing boards.

STEVE:No?

No.

STEVE:But they can hurt you?

Well if they are used the way you used it yeah.

STEVE: Ooo-oooo so they are kinda like the opposite of god!

What?

STEVE: Well ironing boards can hurt but I should be afraid of then, but god won’t hurt me but I should fear him,

I guess.

STEVE: Boy this is getting complicated.

What is?

STEVE:This business of learning what doesn’t hurt, what to be afraid of, what not to be afraid of.

Are you sure you’re okay?// your just going on and on about the crazy stuff—

STEVE:Oh yeah yeah see I have congenital analgesia, he thinks some people

What

STEVE:Congenital analgesia

Who thinks?

STEVE:My brother, Paul. Some people call it hereditary sensory neuropathy type 4, but it just means I can’t feel pain. You can hit me if you want to see!

No

STEVE:Go ahead it won’t hurt see!

OW

STEVE: See!

OW!

STEVE:See!

OWW!

STEVE:Go ahead

No.

STEVE:Come on

No!

STEVE: Come on!!

No!!

Okay you don’t have to… so I’ve actually recently put my self onto the list of things to be afraid of but…

Oh my gosh I’m sorry oh my gosh I just clicked you!

STEVE: You hit me! Most people go away but you hit me!

I had to see… what would… but are you okay?

STEVE:Yeah I don’t feel pain.

Don’t feel pain right, of course you’re okay, but are you sure?

STEVE:Well is there any blood?

No

STEVE:Any discoloration?

No.

STEVE: Then im okay

Well Buddy you can hurt and not even look like it.

STEVE: But—

Trust me there are things that hurt you that make you bruised and bloody and there are things that hurt you that don’t make you bruised and bloody and they all hurt…..

I’m Marvalyn!

STEVE:I’m Steve I live on the third floor room eleven.

I live with my boyfriend Eric I love him very much.

STEVE:Yeah we saw you move in.

Yeah our roof cloclasped from all the snow in December we’re just here untill we can get our feet back in the ground.

STEVE: Oh well that’s good…. We’ve been trying to get our feet back in the found our whole lives.

Oh…

STEVE:Yeah it takes some people longer to do that then others.

Yeah.

STEVE: You guys are loud.

Huh?

STEVE:You and Eric you yell and bang were right below you.

Oh, sorry about that were just going through a rough patch happens . Sorry

What is it like?

STEVE:What

To not feel pain?

STEVE: I don’t know I don’t know what it’s like to hurt so I don’t know I don’t really feel

Is this how you were born?