Max Richter: Aria 1 (Pt. 1) plays.
Lacey,
What is your world apart? In your mind…when you think of all the worst things, and all the best things…and the things you are and are not…who do you love?
Look down now at the blanket held tight up to your chin and realize just for a moment that you exist. Calm yourself and think of the life you’ve not yet lived…and the person you may never be allowed to be…and ask yourself: who loves me?
“It feels like no one loves me.” says Lacey.
That’s what I was afraid of.
Memoryhouse by Max Richter plays.
Then fuck all of us. Fuck the Kennedys most of all. …I hate them.
…Lacey if they need you to not hear love…to do whatever minimal good they claim to do in the world…humanity can’t afford it. You can’t damn one person’s life in some absurd manner start to finish with any justification.
“Is that what they’re doing?” asks Lacey.
And at that Lacey’s son walks by and the whole house shakes. He’s only ten. He looks like Lem’s son when her eyes dart up and he moves into an adjoining room. It’s almost as if he’s a ghost…of himself. Does he have a buzz cut?
Yes. Maybe. If there’s an Illuminati. Yes!
So nevermind all that. Who’s the nicest?
“Lem?” says Lacey.
“Yeah. That’s what I thought!” says a gangster from the 1930’s in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He smirks. His ghost practically manifests in Lacey’s living-room. “Look! Be smart.” he whispers to Lacey. She instantly knows what he means.
“How did you all get so loud.” says Lacey Banks to the Illuminati.
String Quartet No. 2 “Company” by Philip Glass plays.
Lacey…Lem loves you. …But be angry at him. And if you decide to leave him…he deserves it. The right thing to do is not keep covering for us all.
And at that her daughter runs into the kitchen and hits her head into the wall.
“Dumb bitch!” a man says about a five year old little girl who’s Lem’s daughter.
“Why do you hate her!?” asks the CIA.
“Because! Little asshole! I’ll kill her on behalf of the Kennedys!” says a Kennedy 2024 fan. “She’ll be fine. Women have it easy anyway. They don’t have to play football. Get concussions. Little bitch!” says the hateful man.
“Are you Bobby?” asks a reader.
Silence.
“Dumb Jew!” says a hateful man.
“What? Everyone thought your commercial was stupid?” asks Harold Loeb.
“You know…you’re Jewish. Genetically.” says the CIA to Bobby. “And if that’s Lem’s daughter she’d not be Jewish.”
“Really?” asks Bobby.
“Oh dear God.” says Anthony.
“Fine! She’s not Jewish. And I am.” says Bobby.
“Are you trying to kill her or scare her mother?” asks a reader.
“Even the score. Lots of kids die. Her daughter is a spoiled child.” he says, getting drunk.
“So you’re trying to paralyze or intellectually harm my daughter?” asks Lem.
“He’s gay though, Bobby.” says a gay Jewish man.
Awkward silence.
“Do you hate her more because she’s Lem’s daughter or because her father Mark is Jewish in this life?” asks the gay Jewish man.
“I’m dead.” says Matthew Nesheim.
“I said that too.” says Zelensky.
“Speaking of which…do we really know if Zelensky is dead?” asks current US President Joe Biden.
“You mean alive?” asks Kamala Harris.
“Dead! He’s not dead…he’s alive. …I don’t get it. One minute he’s…here- And then he’s dead.” says US President Joe Biden. “What!? What’s so funny?”
“Do you hate me?” Taylor Swift asks Bobby Kennedy Junior.
“Bobby doesn’t hate anyone!” says Zelensky smiling.
Bobby looks very grumpy. He might be drunk.
“You know Lem loves his kids. And I’m not going to let you harm any of the Nesheim kids!” says Matthew Nesheim. “Just because he can’t respond doesn’t mean he’s not responding. You just aren’t able to hear him.” he says to Lacey.
“Bobby…why are you allowing or doing violence towards her kids?” asks the CIA.
He laughs it off.
“Taylor! …You’re not right in your head! You’re a loser!” says Bobby to Taylor.
“Is he really saying that?!?” says Taylor.
“No! It’s a joke. Chill!” says Zelensky.
“Are you all in the same room?” asks a reader.
“No! It’s telepathy.” says Taylor Swift.
“It’s a stupid commercial!” says Bobby, pouting.
“Was that supposed to be his shining moment?” asks Lacey.
“Why do you attack her daughter?” asks a gay man.
“Because she’s the most like me. And my family. And he knows that. My son is also handsome. And he knows my son will beat the shit out of him someday or someone else will.” says Lem. “She’s a lot like my sister and my dad. Dr. Billings!”
Bobby laughs.
“Yeah. But I’ll fuck him up over your daughter too.” says Joe Kennedy Junior. “I’ll wipe your ass on cement until you have no ass!” Joe says to Bobby Kennedy Junior.
“What the fuck is your problem!?” yells a woman in Maine at Bobby.
“Actually, I agree!” says another woman in Maine.
“Yes! That was a very expensive commercial!” Bobby says to Lacey.
Taylor laughs. Covers her mouth.
“So you’re jealous of a five-year-old girl because you know she has some intellectual potential that threatens you or you’re jealous of the fact that Lem loves her?” asks John Krasinsky.
“Lem loves her!” says Zelensky.
“So that was Zelensky.” says Kamala Harris to Joe Biden. “Did you hear him!?”
“Oh! Yeah. …Hey!” says current US President Joe Biden, smiling.
Zelensky ignores him.
Anyway…Lacey…just ignore us. If you know what I mean? Or if that’s all wrong…let’s talk about it.
“What’s that!?” asks Joe Biden. “Look at him!”
“Yeah. You love football.” says Jill.
“Oh I do!” says Joe grinning. “It’s a big deal.”
“You’re right! It is.” says Lacey. “Thanks for clueing me in.”
“He loves football!” says Kamala Harris.
“Lousy commercial!” says Bobby. “So fucking stupid!”
Later.
“They’re both like me.” says Lem.
Later.
“I knew they’d win!” says Lacey. “Well mostly.”
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