ABSTRACT
Editor’s note: The Constant State of Desire was first performed at The Kitchen in New York City, December 1986. The following text was altered somewhat in every performance.
ACT I
(Enter in yellow dress. Hair in chignon. Monolog from overstuffed chair.)
Baby Bird
She dreams. She dreams of strangling baby birds. Bluebirds, wrens, and robins. With her thumb she pushes back on their beak, against their soft small neck till it snaps like a breaking twig.
