CLAIRE: (All up in Jackson’s face.) (All up in Jackson’s face.) I call it the frozen chocolate heart. I drop a frozen cherry into a pool of chocolate syrup then pile on chocolate and cherry ice cream, finish with a cherry soda and whip cream. If you suck hard enough the heat from your suction will melt the cherry.

JACKSON: I want to melt the cherry. Make me one?

ALICIA: That’s not how it happened.

AL: Of course it is.

ALICIA: My family came under ships.

AL: I just told you how your family came here.

ANITA: You all up in the face of history, now how you gonna act?

Mimi does the Running Man in slow motion. She moves faster and faster and faster and faster.

RJ: Necessary. Needed. My other self. But you ask the impossible.

CJ: I cannot be me anymore. I love you little bro, but please. I can no longer take the weight.

RJ: I am not strong like you.

CJ: Yes you are, cuz now your are me.

VENDOR: You want a community you can be proud of? Feel safe in? Una communidad donde pueden sentirse suguros? You wanna live this life? You will need sunshine and shit. Flowers cost.

A hot beam of light. THE BOY is at it’s center. He is fine. Stoic in physical perfection. He barley seems to realize he has a body. He sits doing piece work. He stitches as if he is the center of the world. His legs are open and the light seems to radiate from his crotch.

CEO: The Dilligaff Corporation, all corporations, do not give a flying fig about you or your health. It is not our job to care. Our job is to make money. It’s not some great conspiracy. It is Capitalism.

PATTY (EGO): I see your ruin. I see you broken. Drunk, fat, ugly, without power. Without cable TV. No job.

PATTY (SUPER EGO): You are worthless.

PATTY (EGO): I know it is hard to believe but I was once like you. Except, I was beautiful and thin and totally rich.

HOWARD: I knew exactly what I was doing. They are killers all of them. Destroyer of worlds. I knew it when they placed me the deep water with walls. I knew it when I bashed her body against them. I knew exactly what I was doing.

MISS C.: (Reading form her clipboard.) Your final assignment is to choose a secret identity and super powers. Shall we begin?

BLACK GIRL: Do you think I’ll be able to levitate things? And freeze them?

#2: Neither one of us has ever been poor.

#1: I had no education-no chance-

#2: Or uneducated-I have a Phd-

#1: And then you come along-

#2: We are lucky. We have 1st world problems.