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The Poison

  • Tragedy
  • Monologue
  • 2 min
  • No gender marker
  • Adult
  • Advanced
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  • MOI No gender marker, Adult your role

Excerpt

MOI

Smile. Go on smiling. You, raising your cup, have no idea that I know every drop of what you have poured into me for twenty years.

I said nothing. One says nothing, while one is preparing. I smiled as you smile. I wore your colours, applauded your triumphs, kissed the hand that tightened my chains at night.

You thought me weak because I was patient. An old mistake, the mistake of the powerful: they take silence for submission, when more often it is a blade being sharpened out of sight.

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