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ACT FOUR : John Brown's Body

If you want the smoke and puffery you can listen to Kissinger and Schultz and those guys

But if you want to look at the heart of modern conservatism, you look at me

Everyone else has abandoned the struggle

Everything nowadays is just sipping tea with Nixon and Mao

That was disgusting, did you see that? Were you born yet?

- Of course I... - My generation, we had clarity

Unafraid to took deep into the miasma at the heart of the world, what a pit, what a nightmare is there

I have looked, I have searched all my life for absolute bottom, and l found it, believe me. Stygian

How tragic, how brutal life is. How false people are

The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become

All else is vanity. I don't know the world anymore

After I die they`ll say it was for the money and the headlines

But it was never the money. It's...

It's the moxie that counts. I never wavered

-You, remember - I will, Roy

I left my wife

-I needed to tell you -It happens

I've been staying with someone. Someone else - It happens

With a... I was afraid you wouldn't want to see me. If you'd forgiven me. For letting you down

I forgive you. But I don't forget

Or I forget but I don't forgive. I can't remember which, what does it...

You seen a lady around here, dumpy lady, stupid hat? She...

Oh boy, oh boy, no. She's off watching the hearings

- Treacherous bitch - Who?

Did you get a blessing from your father before he died? - A blessing?

-Yeah -No

He should have done that. Life. That's what they're supposed to bless. Life

- Roy, I need to talk to you about... Ssh. Schmendrick. Don't fuck up the magic

A brokhe. You don't even have to trick it out of me, like what's his name In the Bible

Jacob. That's the one. A ruthless motherfucker

Some bald runt, but he laid hold of his birthright with his claws and his teeth

Jacob's father... what was the guy's name? - Isaac

Yeah. The sacrifice. That jerk. My mother read me those stories

See thtis scar on my nose? When I was three months old, there was a bony spur

She made them operate, shave it off

They said I was too young for surgery, I'd outgrow it but she insisted

I figure she wanted to toughen me up. And it worked. I am tough. It's taking a lot to dismantle me

Now you have to go

OK... But I... The person I've been staying with

It's not a... It's a man

A man? -Yes

You're with a man. -Yes I...

I guess I am, yes, it's someone I met recently, for three weeks now, actually, we...

Although I don't know If I, If he wants to continue...

And I'm going kinda crazy, a little, I can't, I don't know what I'll do If he...

I guess it's a surprise to you, that I'm... I hope this its OK

There's no one I can talk to about it, I never wanted to talk about this

But now I'm going pillar to post, looking for, for oh Lord I don't know... Sympathy I suppose

Which I never used to need, which I never wanted, never allowed or even fell for myself

I always found the whole idea of it just contemptible, just repulsive

And I know how preposterous this is, coming at you with this

But I know you care for me. I know that. And I am so... -I gotta...

Oh I'm sorry, I'm... What, the. bathroom or...?

Roy, what are you...? Help, please, I think he...

Holy shit

Get the fuck away from me - Roy, please, get back into...

Shut up! Now you listen to me. Get your ass back in that bed

Shut up, I said. I want you home. With your wife. Whatever else you got going, cut it dead

Oh no, I can't, Roy, I need to be with him, I need to

You need? Listen to me. You do what I say. Or you will regret it

And don't talk to me about it ever again. I never saw that coming. You kill me

Get somewhere you can take off that shirt and throw it out, and don't touch the blood

Why? I don't understand

Out! Out! You already got my blessing. What more do you want from me?

Get the fuck outta here!

Please, wait, let me just wait till... Till what?

You what, you want to stay and watch this? Well fuck you too

Every goddamn thing I ever wanted, they have taken from me

Mocked and reviled, all my life. Join the club

I don't belong to any club you could get through the front door of

You watch yourself, you take too many liberties. What's your name?

Norman Arriaga. Belize to my friends, but you can call me Norman Arriaga

-Tell me something, Norman, you ever hire a lawyer? - No Roy. Never did

Hire a lawyer, sue somebody, it's good for the soul

Lawyers are the High Priests of America

We alone know the words that made America. out of thin air.

We alone know how to use the words. The Law, the only club I ever wanted to belong to

And before they take that from me, I'm going to die

Fire. Out

God have mercy. This is a lousy way to go. God have mercy

- Look who's back - Who?

Mrs Reddy Kilowatt. Fucking horror. How's Yonkers?

- I almost feel sorry for you - A bad idea

Yeah. Pity. Repulsive

You. Me. No connection

Nobody with me now. But the dead

Oh this is going to be so much worse than I'd imagined

- Hello Fuck you, you little shitbag

Don't waste energy beating up on me, OK? I'm already taking care of that

- Don't see any bruises - Inside

You are one noble guy. Inside. Don't flatter yourself, Louis

So. It's your tea party. Talk

It's good to see you again. I missed you -Talk

-I wanted to try to make up - Make up

-Yes. But... Aha. But

But you don't have to be so hostile. Don't I get any points for trying to arrive at a resolution?

Maybe what I did isn't forgivable, but... - It Isn't

But I'm trying to be responsible, Prior

There are limits. Boundaries. And you have to be reasonable

Why are you dressed like that?

You were saying something about being reasonable

I've been giving this a lot of thought. Yes I fucked up, that's obvious

But maybe you fucked up too. You never trusted me, you never gave me a chance to find my footing...

...not really, you were so quick to attack and I think, maybe just too much of a victim, finally

Passive. Dependent. And what I think is that people do have a choice about how they handle...

You want to come back. Why? Atonement? Exoneration?

I didn't say I wanted to come back

Oh. No, you didn't

I can't. Move in again, start all over again. I don't think it would be any different

You're seeing someone else - What? No

- You are - I'm not

Well, occasionally a... He's just a pickup, how do you...?

Threshold of revelation. Now. Ask me how I know he's a Mormon

Is he a Mormon? Well, goddamn

Ask me how I knew? - How?

Fuck you! I'm a prophet

Reasonable? Limits?

Tell It to my lungs, stupid, tell it to my lesions, tell it to the cotton-woolly patches in my eyes

- Prior, I haven't seen him for days now - I'm going, I have limits too

You cry, but you endanger nothing in yourself. It's like the idea of crying when you do it

Or the idea of love

So. Your boyfriend - He's not my...

-Tell me where you met him. In the park. Well, first at work

- He's a lawyer or a judge? - Lawyer

A Gay Mormon Lawyer -Yes. Republican too

A Gay Mormon Republican Lawyer. Louis!

But he's sort of, I don't know If the word would be... well, in a way sensitive, and I...

Ah. A sensitive Gay Republican. He's just company. Companionship

Companionship. Oh

You know just when I think he couldn't possibly say anything to make it worse, he does

Companionship. How good. I wouldn't want you to be lonely.

There are thousands of gay men In New York City with AIDS

And nearly every one of them is being taken care of by a friend or by a lover...

...who has stuck by them through things worse than my... So far

Everyone got that, except me. I got you. Why? What is wrong with me?

- Louis? Are you really bruised inside? - I can't have this talk anymore

Oh the list of things you can't do. You So fragile! Answer me. Inside, bruises?

- Yes. Come back to me when they're visible

I want to see black and blue, Louis, I want to see blood

Because I can't believe you even have blood in your veins till you show it to me

So don't come near me again, unless you've got something to show

Time to take your pills

What? What time of... Water

Bitter. Look out there. Black midnight

-You want anything? - Nothing that comes from there

As far as I'm concerned you can take all that away

Oh... What?

Oh. The bogeyman is here. Lookit, Ma, a schvartze toytenmann

Come in, sweetheart, what took you so long?

You're flying, Roy. It's the morphine. They put morphine in the drip to stop the...

-You awake? Can you see who I am? Oh yeah, you came for my mama, years ago

You wrap your arms around me now. Squeeze the bloody life from me. OK?

No, it's not OK. You're stoned, Roy

Dark strong arms, take me like that. Deep and sincere but not too rough

Just open me up to the end of me

Who am I, Roy?

The negro night nurse, my negation

You've come to escort me to the underworld. Come on

You want me in your bed, Roy? You want me to take you away?

- I'm ready - I'll be coming for you soon

Everything I want is in the end of you

- Let me ask you something, sir. - Sir?

- What's it like? After? - After...?

- This misery ends - Hell or Heaven?

Aw, come on. Jesus Christ, who has time for these games?

- Like San Francisco - A city. Good

I was worried it'd be a garden. I hate that shit

Big city, overgrown with weeds, but flowering weeds

On every corner a wrecking crew and something new and crooked going up catty-corner to that

Windows missing in every edifice like broken teeth

Fierce gusts of gritty wind, and a gray, high sky full of ravens

-Isaiah Prophet birds. Roy

Piles of trash, but lapidary like rubies and obsidian, and diamond-colored cowspit streamers in the wind

-And voting booths -And a dragon atop a golden horde

And everyone in Balenciaga gowns with red corsages

And big dance palaces full of music and lights and racial impurity and gender confusion

And all the deities are Creole, mulatto, brown as the mouths of rivers

Race, taste and history finally overcome. And you ain't there

- And Heaven? - That was Heaven, Roy

The fuck it was

- Who are you? - Your negation

Yeah. I know you. Nothing. A stomach grumble that wakes you in the night

Been nice talking to you. Go to sleep now, baby. I'm just the shadow on your grave

- That's his office. This is stupid

Go home If you're chicken. You're the one who should be home

I have a hobby now. Haunting people

Fuck home. You wait here. I want to meet my replacement

Oh -Yes. can I...

You look just like the dummy. She's right

Who's right? Your wife

- What? Do you know my... - No

You said my wife -No I didn't

- Yes you did -You misheard. I'm a prophet

What? Prophet. Prophet. I prophesy. I have sight. I see

-What do you do? - I'm a clerk

Oh big deal. A clerk. You what, you file things?

Well you better be keeping a file on the hearts you break, that's all that counts in the end

You'll have bills to pay in the world to come, you and yourfriend, the Whore of Babylon

Sorry wrong room

He's the Marlboro Man. Oooh, I wanna see

Sacred Heart of Jesus! Now what ts...

You're Roy's nurse. I recognize you - No you don't

- From the hospital. You're Roy Cohn's nurse - No I'm not. Not a nurse

We all look alike to you. You all look alike to us

It's a mad mad world. Have a nice day

- Home on the range? Chaps and spurs. Now girl, we got to get you home

Mega-butch. He made me feel beyond nelly. Like little wispy daisies were sprouting out my ears

- Little droopy wispy wilted... Run, run!

What game are you playing, this is a federal courthouse

You said something about my wife. Now what... How do you know my...

- I'm... Nothing. I'm a mental patient. He's my nurse - Not his nurse, I'm not a...

We're here because my will is being contested. What is that called, when they challenge your will?

Competency. But this is an appellate court

And I am appealing to anyone, anyone in the universe, who will listen to me for some charity

Some people are so greedy, such pigs, they have everything, health, everything, and still they want more

You said my wife. And I want to know, is she...

Talk to her yourself, bullwinkle. What do I look like, a marriage counsel?

Oh, nursey dear, fetch the medication, I'm starting to rave

Pardons, Monsieur l'Avocat, nous sommes absolutement desolee

Behave yourself, cherie or nanny will have to use the wooden spoon

I am trapped in a world of white people. That's my problem

-Nice angel. -What angel?

The fountain - Bethesda

What's she commemorate, Louis? I'll bet you know -The Croton Aqueduct, I think

Right after the Civil War. Prior loves this... The Civil War. I knew you'd know

I know all sorts of things. The sculptress was a lesbian

Oh, a sister! That a fact? You are nothing If not well Informed

- Listen. I saw Prior yesterday - Prior is upset

This guy I'm seeing, i'm not seeing him now. Prior misunderstood, he jumped to...

Oh yeah. Your new beau. Prior and me, we went to the courthouse. Scoped him out

-You had no right to do that -Oh did we violate your rights?

Yeah, sort of, and, and... -You walk out on your lover...

Days don't pass before you are out on the town with somebody new

This is a record low. Sharing your dank and dirty bed with Roy Cohn's buttboy

Come again? Doesn't that bother you at all?

Roy Cohn? What the fuck are you... I am not sharing my bed with Roy Cohn's...

Your little friend didn't tell you, huh? You and Hoss Cartwright...

...it's not a verbal kind of thing, you just kick off your boots and hit the hay

Joe Pitt is not Roy Cohn's... Joe is a very moral man

He's not even that conservative, or, well not that kind of a...

-And I don't want to continue this - Bye-bye

It's not my fault that Prior left you for me. I beg your pardon

You have always hated me. Because you are in love with Prior

And you were when I met him and he fell In love with me, and so now you cook up this...

I mean how do you know this? That Joe and Roy Cohn are...

I don't know whether Mr Cohn has penetrated more than his spiritual sphincter

All I'm saying is you better hope there's no GOP germ, Louis, cause If there is, you got it

I don't believe you. Not Roy Cohn. Joe wouldn't... Not Roy Cohn

He's like the polestar of human evil, he's like the worst human being who ever lived

The damage he's done, the years and years of criminality, that whole era, that...

Give me fucking credit for something, please, some little moral shred of something

OK sure I fucked up, I have fucked up everything

I didn't want to, to face what I needed to face, what life was insisting I face. But I don't know

I've always felt you had to take action, not sit, not to be trapped, stuck, paralyzed by...

Even If It's hard, or really terrifying, or even If It does damage, you have to keep moving forward

Instead of... I can't just, you know, sit around feeling shit, or feeling like shit

I cry way way too easily, I fall apart, I'm no good unless I strike out at...

Which is easy because I'm so fucking furious at my... So I fucked up spectacularly, totally

I've ruined my life, and his life, I've hurt him so badly

But still, even I, even I am not so utterly lost inside myself that I...

I wouldn't, ever, like, sleep with someone who... someone who's Roy Cohn's...

- Buttboy -Oh no

You know what your problem is, Louis?

Your problem is that you are so full of piping hot crap that the mention of your name draws files

You don't even know Thing One about this guy, do you?

Uh-huh. Well ain't that pathetic

Just so's the record's straight, I love Prior but I was never In love with him

I have a man, uptown, and I have since long before I first laid my eyes on the sorry-ass sight of you

- I didn't know that you...No cause you never bothered to ask

Up in the air, just like that angel, too far off the earth to pick out the details

Louis and his Big Ideas. Big Ideas are all you love

-America is what Louis loves. So what? Maybe I do

You don't know what I love. You don't - Well I hate America, Louis. I hate this country

It's just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing

He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach It

That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me

You come with me to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean

I live in America, Louis, that's hard enough, I don't have to love it

You do that. Everybody's got to love something

Everybody does

-You shouldn't have come. - You already made that clear as day

I'm sorry. I don't understand why you're here

For more than two weeks. You can't even return a simple phone call

I just don't have anything to say. I have nothing to say

You could tell me so I could tell her where you are

You've been living on some rainy rooftop for all we knew. It's cruel

- Not intended to be - You're sure about that

I'm taking her home. -You think that's best for her, you think that she should

I know what I'm doing. I don't think you have a clue

You can afford not to. You're a man, you botch up, It's not a big deal, but she's been...

Just being a man doesn't mean anything. It's still a big deal, Ma. Botching up

And nothing works

Not all my... oh, you know, my effortful clinging to the good, to what's right, not pursuing freedom, or happiness

Nothing, nothing works anymore, nothing I try fixes anything at all, nothing

I have got nothing, now, my whole life, all I've done is make botches

I'm really bewildered

Being a woman's harder. Look at her

You and me. It's like we're back In Salt Lake again. You sort of bring the desert with you

Is she...? She's not here

But I went to the apartment. She Isn't... - Then she's escaped

I think maybe motion's better for her right now, being out and away

It's raining. She can't be out on her own

Can I help Iook for... -There's nothing you can do

You should go, Ma, you should go back home. It's a terrible time

You never wanted to visit before. You shouldn't have

-You never asked me. You didn't have to

I didn't and I shouldn't and I don't know why I did, but I'm here, so let me help

She's my responsibility, Ma. Fly home. Please

-I can't -Why?

I... Aunt Libby thought she'd smelled radon gas in the basement

- What? Of the house

You can't smell radon gas, It has no smell, and since when do you listen to Libby?

I acted on Impulse, and I... - I can't... could we talk about this another tIme?

That thing you told me, that night. On the tetephone, from Central Park. When you were drinking

No, we can't do that. Not now. I don't want to -You said you thought you...

- I don't want to talk about It. Forget It - But I think maybe now we ought to...

No! And do what? Pray together? No, I couldn't stomach the prospect

-Are you...? I'm sorry. Don't cry - Don't be stupid

And If I ever do I promise you you'll not be privileged to witness It

- I should... Is there really radon gas in the...? Just go.

I'll pay to change your ticket

-That man who was just here - We're closed. Go away

He's your son

Do you know him. That man? How do you know him, that he's my...?

My ex-boyfriend, he knows him

I shadowed him, all the way up from... I wanted to warn him about later

When his hair goes and there's hips and jowls and all that human stuff

That poor slob there's just gonna wind up miserable, fat, frightened and alone

Because Louis, he can't handle bodies

Are you a homosexual?

Oh Is It that obvious? Yes I am. What's it to you?

Would you say you are a typical homosexual?

Me? Oh I'm stereotypical

-What, you mean like am I a hairdresser or...? - Are you a hairdresser?

Well It would be your lucky day If I was. Because frankly...

I'm sick. I'm sick. It's expensive

Oh shit now I won't be able to stop, now It's started. I feel really terrible, do I have a fever?

Do I have a fever?

-Yes. How high?

-There might be a thermometer in the... Very high, very high

Could you get me to a cab, I think I want... Don't be alarmed, It's worse than it looks, I mean...

You should try to stand up, or... Let me see If anyone can...

Echo-breath, It's... I overdid It. I'm In trouble again

Take me to Saint Vincent's Hospital, I mean, help me to a cab

Can you stand up? -You don't... Call me a cab

I'm useless here

Look, If you're trying to convert me, this isn't a good time

Lord, look at it out there. It's pitch-black. We better move

The end of the world is at hand

Hello, pale face

Nothing like storm clouds over Manhattan to get you In the mood for Judgment Day

It's freezing, It's raining, where are your shoes? I threw them In the river

The Judgment Day. Everyone will think they're crazy now, not just me

Everyone will see things. Sick men will see angels, women who have houses will sell their houses

Dimestore dummies will rear up on their wood-putty legs and roam the land, looking for brides

- Let's go home - Where's that?

Want to buy an Island? It's going out of business

You can have it for the usual cheap trinkets. Fire sale. The prices are Insane

- Harper. Joe. Did you miss me?

- I've come back. Oh I know

Here's why I wanted to stay In Brooklyn. The Promenade view

Water won't ever accomplish the end. No matter how much you cry

Flood's not the answer, people just float

Let's go home

Fire's the answer. The Great and Terrible Day. At Iast

You've lost eight pounds. Eight pounds!

I know people who would kill to be in the shape you were In, you were recovering, and you threw It away

ThIs isn't about weight, It's about lungs, pneumonia

We don't know yet - The fuck we don't, asshole

You may not but I can't breathe. You'd breathe better If you didn't holler like that

This is my ex-lover's lover's Mormon mother

Keep breathing. Stop moving. Stay put

- I should go - I'm not insane

-I didn't say you... I saw an angel. That's insane

WeII, It's... Insane. But I'm not Insane. Do I seem Insane?

-You... I'm not sure I... - Oh for pity fucking sake just answer the fucking...

- No. Driven, and rude, but... But then why did I do this to myself?

Because I have been driven Insane by your son and by that lying...

Because I'm consumed by this Ice-cold, razorblade terror that shouts and shouts...

'Don't stay still, get out of bed, keep moving. Run

And I've run myself into the ground. Right where She said I'd eventually be

What's happened to me? She seemed so real

Who? Oh, the...

Could be you had a vision - A vision. Thank you, Maria Ouspenskaya

Peopte have visions - No they... Not sane people

One hundred and seventy years ago, which is recent, an angel of God appeared to Joseph Smith

In Upstate New York, not far from here But that's ridiculous

It's not polite to call other people's beliefs ridiculous

- I dIdn't mean to... I believe this

He had great need of understanding, our Prophet

His desire made prayer. His prayer made an angel. The angel was real. I believe that

I don't. And I'm sorry but It's repellent to me. So much of what you believe

What do I believe?

I'm a homosexual. With AIDS. I can only Imagine what you...

No you can't. Imagine. The things In my head

You don't make assumptions about me, mister. I won't make them about you

Fair nough

My son is... well, like you -Homosexual

I flew Into a rage when he told me, mad as August hornets. At first I assumed It was about his...

- Homosexuality. But that wasn't it

Homosexuality. I don't find It an appetizing notion, two men, together, but men In any configuration...

That wasn't it. Stupidity gets me cross, but that wasn't it either

I flew Into a rage, filled with rage, then the rage lifted me up

I felt... Truly I felt lefted up, Into the air. And I flew

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile

Lie stiII. You'II be all right. -No. I won't be

My lungs are getting tighter. The fever mounts and you get delirious

And then days of delirium and awful pain and drugs, you start slipping and then...

I really fucked up. I'm scared. I can't do it again

You shouldn't talk that way. You ought to make a better show of yourself

Look at this horror

See? See that? That's not human. That's why I run

It's a cancer. Nothing more. Nothing more human than that

Do Mormons read the, you know, the Bible? Or just the...

- The Book of Mormon is a part of the... Don't get technical, you know what I mean

- The other parts, the Old Testament part - I've read the...

The prophets In the Bible, do they ever refuse their visions?

One did. There might be others - And what does God do to them when they do that?

He feeds them to whales

Stay with me. Oh no

Just till I sleep. You comfort me

-Oh, I... -You do, you stiffen my spine

I'm not needed else where, I suppose I...

When I got up this morning...

- ...this is not how I envisioned the day would end - Me neither

An angel Is a belief. With wings and arms that can carry you

- If It lets you down, reject it. Huh

- There's scriptural precedent. And then what?

Seek something new

When we have sex, why do you keep your eyes closed?

- I don't - You always do

You can say why, I already know the answer - Then why do I have to...

-You Imagine things. Imagine men - Yes

Imagining, just like me, except the only time I wasn't Imagining was when I was with you

You, the one part of the real world I wasn't allergic to

- Please. Don't - But I only thought I wasn't dreaming

Oh. Back In Brooklyn, back with Joe

I am going out. I have to get some stuff left behind

Look at me. Look at me. Look at me

Here! Look here at... What?

-What do you see? -What do I...?

-What do you see? - NothIng, I... I see nothing

FinaIIy. The truth

I'm going. Out. Just out

It sets you free. Good-bye

-LouIs. Please let me In. You're In

You weren't at work. For three days now. You... I wish you'd get a phone

I'm staying In a hotel, near Fulton Street. It's kind of...

-You said you'd call, or... -No I never

OK I expected you to call me, I hoped...

Have you no decency, sir?' Who said that?

I'm having a very hard time with this

At tong Iast? Have you no sense of decency?' Come on, who said it?

-Who sai...? -Who said, Have you no decency?

I don't... I'm not Interested in playing guessing games, Louis, please stop and let me...

You really don't know who said ˜Have you no decency?'

- I want to tell you something, I want to... OK, second question: Have you no decency?

Guess what I spent the rainy afternoon doing? - What?

Research at the courthouse. Look what I got. The Decisions of Justice Theodore Wilson

Second Circuit Court of Appeals. 1981-1984 The Reagan Years

- You read my decisions. Your decisions. Yes

The librarian's gay, he has all the good dish, he told me that Justice Wilson didn't write these opinions...

...any more than Nixon wrote SIX Crises Or Kennedy wrote Profiles In Courage

Or Reagan wrote Where's the Rest of Me? Or you and I wrote the Book of Love

These gems were ghost written by you, his obedient clerk

OK, we can talk about the decisions, If that's what you want

Or Prior, If you want to talk about... If you saw him

I'm... Well I'm relieved you're here. I was scared you'd have moved back, I mean out. I'm...

Oh God It's so good to see you again. Hey!

- Naturally I was eager to read them - Free country

I love the one where you found against those women on Staten Island who were suing the New Jersey factory

The toothpaste makers whose orange-colored smoke was blinding chiIdren

Not blind, just minor Irritation -Three of them had to be hospitalized, Joe

It's sort of brilliant, In a satanic sort of way... I don't believe this

How you concluded that these women had no right to sue under the Air and Water Protection Act

My opinions are being criticized by the guy who changes the coffee filters In the secretaries' lounge

Because the Air and Water Protection Act doesn't protect people, but actually only air and water

It's not your fault that you have no idea what you're talking about

But It's unbelievable to me how total ignorance Is no Impediment for you In forming haIf-baked...

...uninformed snap judgments masquerading as adult opinions, you child

But my absolute favorite is this. Stephens versus the United States

Of course. I was waiting for that one. It's a complicated case, you don't...

The army guy who got a dishonorable discharge for being gay

Now as I understand It, this Stephens told the army he was gay when he enlisted

But when he got ready to retire they booted him out. Cheat the queer of his pension

Right. And he sued. And he won. He got the pension back. And then the...

The first judges gave him his pension back, yes

Because they ruled that gay men are members of a legitimate minority...

...entitled to the special protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

Equal Protection under the Law. I can just imagine how that momentary lapse into, you know, sanity was received

So then all the judges on the Second CircuIt were hastily assembled, and...

- And they found for the guy again -But but but

On an 'equitable estoppel'. I had to look that up, I'm Mr Coffee, I can't be expected to know these things

They didn't change the decision, they just changed the reason for the decision. Right?

They gave it to him on a technicality. The army knew Stephens was gay when he enlisted

That's all, that's why he won. Not because It's unconstitutional to discriminate against homosexuals

Because homosexuals, they write, are not entitled to equal protection under the law

Not, not Insofar as precedence determines the... which Is how law works, as opposed to...

The definition of a suspect class, which you probably've never...

Actually they didn't write this. You did. They gave this opinion to Wilson to write

Which since they know he's a vegetable Incapable of writing do-re-mi...

...was quite the vote of confidence In his Industrious little sidekick

This Is an Important bit of legal fag-bashing, Isn't It? They trusted you to do It. And you din't disappoint

It's law not justice, It's power, not the merits of its exercise, It's not an expression of the ideal, It's...

So who said, Have you no decency?' - I didn't come here to... I'm leaving

-You moron, how can you not know that? - I'm leaving, you son of a bitch, get out of my way

It's only the greatest punchline In American history. Out of my way, Louis

Have you no decency, at long Iast, sir, have you no decency at all?

I don't know who said It! Why are you doing this to me?

I love you! Please believe me, I love you. Stop hurting me like...

Joseph Welch. The Army-McCarthy hearings. Ask Roy. He'll tell you. He knows. He was there

- Roy Cohn. What I want to know Is, did you fuck him? DId I what?

How often has the latex-sheathed cock I put In my mouth been previously In the mouth...

...of the most evil, twisted, vicious bastard ever to snort COKE at Studio 54?

Because lips that kissed those lips will never kiss mine

Don't worry about that, just get out of the...

- DId you fuck him, did he pay you to let him... -Move!

You lied to me. Well fuck you, you cheap piece of shit

He's got AIDS. Did you even know that?

Stupid closeted bigots, you probably never figured out that each other was...

Shut up

Fascist hypocrite lying filthy... Now stop. Now stop

Oh jeeesus. aw jeez. Please. Say you're OK. please. Please

- That hurt -I never did that before, I never hit anyone before

Can you open it? Can you see?

- I can see blood - Let me get a towel

I could have you arrested, you creep. They'd think I put you in jail for beating me up

- I never hit anyone before - But It would really be for those decisions

It was like a sex scene from an Ayn Rand novel, huh?

I'm sorry. I hurt you, Louis, I never hit anyone before

Yeah yeah, get lost. Before I really lose my temper and hurt you back

I just want to lie here and bleed for a while

It'll do me good

John Brown's body lies a mouIderI'n' In the grave...

His truth Is marching on

Look at that big smile. What you got to smile about, Roy?

I'm going, Ethel. Finally, finally done wIth this world, at long long Iast

All mine enemies will be standing on the other shore, mouths gaping open like stupid fish

While the Almighty parts the Sea of Death and lets his Royboy cross over to Jordan

On dry land and still a lawyer

Don't count your chickens, Roy. It's over. Over?

I wanted the news should come from me. The panel ruled against you, Roy

- No, no, they only started meeting two days ago - They recommended disbarment

The Executive still has to rule on the recommendation

It'll take another week to sort it out and before then...

The Executive was waiting. And they ruled, one two three

They accepted the panel's recommendation. I'm...

One of the main guys on the Executive leaned over to his friend and said...

'Finally. I've hated that little faggot for thirty-six years

I'm... They...? - They won, Roy. You're not a lawyer anymore

- But am I dead? - No. They beat you. You lost

I decided to come here. so I could see could I forgive you

You who I have hated so terribly

I have borne my hatred for you up Into the heavens and made a needlesharp little star In the sky out of It

It's the star of Ethel Rosenberg's hatred

And It burns every year for one night only, June Nineteen

It burns acid green

I came to forgive, but all I can do Is take pleasure In your misery

Hoping I'd get to see you die more terrible than I did

And you are, cause you're dying In shit, Roy, defeated. And you could kill me, but you couldn`t ever defeat me

You never won. And when you die all anyone will say is, better he had never lived at all

Ma? Muddy? Is It...? Ma?

It's Ethel, Roy. Muddy? I feel bad

-Who are you talking to, Roy, It's Ethel. Good to see you, Ma, It's been years

- I feel bad. Sing to me. - I'm not your mother, Roy

It's cold In here, I'm up so late, past my time

Don't be mad, Ma, but I'm scared... A little. Don't be mad

Sing me a song. Please

- I don't want to Roy, I'm not your... - Please, It's scary out here

Oh God. Oh God, I'm so sorry

a young lad stands, and he thinks

thinks and thinks, the whole night through

whom to take, and not to shame

whom to take, and not to shame

Tumbala Tumbala Tumbalalaika...

Roy? Are you...?

That's It

Wake up, It's time to take your... Oh. Oh, you're gone

No I'm not!

I fooled you, Ethel. I knew who you were all along. I can't believe you felt for that Ma stuff

I just wanted to see If I could finally, finally make Ethel Rosenberg sing. I win

Oh fuck, oh fuck me I...

Next time around I don't want to be a man. I wanna be an octopus

Remember that, OK? A fucking...Hold