JO
But then slowly the poet pulls his face out of the mush and delivers his first line. Can I guess?
ART
Go crazy.
JO
“Law like love?”
ART
We have a winner!
JO
You realize this scene is basically identical to the first scene in all your other plays?
ART
Not really. In the T.S. Eliot version it was Weetabix. And he died. It’s the steel cut oats that pulls Auden through.
JO
Then who snorkeled in the Cream of Wheat?
ART
That was Langston Hughes. He dies too, so I guess that makes me a cereal killer!
JO
Why aren’t I laughing?
ART
You’re an accountant.
