Gregory Hudson Monologue

Act I Scene I
Gainesville Square. Public place
Sampson and Gregory enter (with guns and body armor)
From the Atlas Pizzeria

Sampson
Gregory, I swear, We cannot let them make fun of us like that. We can’t take that junk.

Gregory
(Teasing Sampson) No. Because then we would be trash.

Sampson
What I mean is that if they make us mad. We will pull our guns and fight!

Gregory
Maybe you should try and not get in trouble Sampson.

Sampson
I beat people up when I am angry.

Gregory
We all know that it is hard to make you mad.

Sampson
That trash from the Montague house can make me angry.

Gregory
Angry enough to run away. You won’t stand up for yourself.

Sampson
That trash from that house will make me mad enough to stand up for myself. If I pass
But no, love does whatever it wants. So where are we gonna eat? (sees all the blood). What the heck happened here? What Fight? Wait please don’t say it. It was supposed be about hate, but it was more about love. Love! Loving Hate! Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, and asleep and awake. It tries to be everything except what it is supposed to be. This is the love I feel. Why the heck are you laughing?

Benvolio
No fam, I’m crying because of how sad you are.

Romeo
Yes, that is what love does to you. My sadness sits heavy on my shoulders and you want to add your sadness on top of mine. So now there is even more. I already have enough sadness on me, and now you are going to make me sadder by feeling sorry for you. This is what love is: a smoke made out of lover’s sigh. When the smoke clears, love is a fire burning in our lover’s eyes. If you frustrate love, you get a ocean of lover’s tears. What else is love? It’s form of craziness. It’s a cough drop that you can choke on. Bye cousin.

Benvolio
Hold up. Let me come with you. If you leave me, you are doing the wrong thing.

Romeo
I’m not myself. I’m not here. I’m not this Romeo you speak of. The old Romeo is somewhere