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monologue
(Carol is a 30 year old drover's wife. She has for many years moved around with a group of renegade farm hands in the Australian bush. Chopping wood, cooking and gathering supplies from welfare and what the men can bring home from work.
She has survival savvy and a sense of humour to pull her through.
Scene takes place in grotty kitchen)
Carol's Livin' Out Cooma Way
"I was shearin out back
on a wayside track
an' a bastard of a place by gezzus,
where the gins are small
and the cooks are tall
and the roust a bout's a greasy bastard"
...In't that right doll? aww- can't rememba the rest,
oh-somethin' 'bout a sheep or somthin' an the shitbag
tore as he reached for his needle and cotton..
oh Rex- where's Allen? ..Oh yeh...well don't just sit there
like a stuffed duck- come an eat yer breakfast!...
Oh righteo. oh while yer out there you wanna grab me some more
smokes?...knew ya would- conned again!(she laughs).
AH buggar washin up for a while- they got the hot water on,
so I'll hafta have a smoke....nah they never had no breakfast -
they all had hangovers...awww I had two big chunks a' cake this mornin' fer breakfast. Neva' had the hassles like I had yerterdee; one wantin' bacon, one wantin' this- one wantin' that, someone else wantin' bloody tomatoes. I told 'em! I said ya think it's a bloody boardin' -ouse 'ere an I'm a short order cook!
Fights with Allen? aww there not really fights, there just arguments.
That's just everyday speech- aww- sometimes I just feel like runnin' away. Like that night when I had a big argument with him and all 'a sudden I said, "fuck ye, I'm goin', I'm pissin' orf! .....I get as far as the front gate and that's it, might jump the fence...awwwa few times I run away. I'd never leave 'im but. Just I get the shits out 'ere sometimes- nothin' to do while Allen's out ridin'....Not like when we was workin' at the abbey's.
Awww- I had plenty a jobs at the abbatoirs(pron abataws). I'd be cuttin' the arses outta pigs an' gutten' them an' the like...
We was drovin' for that- yeh, 'bout four years all told. Aww the shittiest stock route was outta Forbes- all those inbredded people were livin' there. Aww- Allen and I had to laugh! There was this inbred, Virginia Coffee, she was THAT dumb- when she was on the silly pension they give her all this back pay. Any'ow, she takes it into the bank and- uh they wanted to know if she had any identification...anyway, she rounds around 'er bag and what have ye- so she pulls outta mirror and says" yeh , that's me- Virginia Coffee!"...And anotha time, old George, that was her husband, he was a fisherman- 'e was always bringin' 'ome fish- any'ow 'esays to 'er, "do ya think ya could, ya know, cook up somethin different.." and hands 'er the sausages. Any'ow when he went in to check 'ow the sausages were goin'., all that was floatin' was skins!...He asked ' er, 'e said-
"what;d yer got 'ere Virginia?" she said"yer sausages!" he says,
"it's not, it's only skins"- she says, "well there wasn't much left after I gutted them!"..... it's true! (Carol sneezes)
Ahh where's the dunny paper to wipe me snout!?(cat comes in with rabbit in it's mouth)..Come on cat- get out! (throws cat out window and sees Allen)..Aww, there's Allen- sppose he'll be comin' in wingin' fer somthin' to eat. (she calls out)..
Is the saddle off alright now doll? ..Eh doll- how 'bout comin' into town?
..Well, sppose I better get meself spruced up to go to town.
Last edited by biggles : 07-16-2007 at 06:56 AM.
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