April 12 Play: COW

X: COW - by Ed Valentine
© April 12, 2010 * ed@edvalentine.com

Lights up: Two MEN near a cow. They have a pail. They look dubious.

BUB: You milk it.

BOYCE: You first.

BUB: I did it yesterday.

BOYCE: Still.

BUB: You got nothing better than that, do you?

BOYCE: (Thinks for a moment.)
Naw.

BUB: Then hop to it. Take the pail.

BOYCE: I still don't see why...

BUB: Just do it.

BOYCE: Ok, then.

BUB: Go on.

(BOYCE touches the cow. It cries, in a human voice.)

COW: Mama! Maaamaaa!

BOYCE: I hate when she does that. Boy, do I hate it.

BUB: We need to get a better cow.

BOYCE: Do we ever. Do we ever.

(The cow keeps crying. Lights out.)

END OF PLAY.