answering machine

jim sits in front of answering machine. he presses a button.

jim : hello, you have reached jim waterbee, i'm not home right now, please leave a message.

he lets go and listens to the recording. he fingers the ring on his ring finger. he presses the button again.

jim : hello, you've reach the home of the waterbees, please leave a message.

he lets go. he starts to listen but presses the button right after "waterbees."

jim : hi it's jim - i'm doing alright hope you are too - leave a message.

he lets go. he listens he pressed the button.

jim : hi it's jim if you're looking for susie, carl or jane - they have a different phone number now - it is 555-2601.

he lets go. he presses a different button.

machine : please leave a message after the tone.

it beeps. he gets up and walks away.

there is love to remain

a bunch of fishbowls on pedestals throughout the stage. they all have goldfish in them.

voice 1 : pop pop pop
voice 2 : pop pop gurgle pop
voice 3 : bored. i'm bored.
voice 4 : jim, you say that all the time.
voice 3 : well i -
voice 1 : doot doot doot.
voice 2 : doot doot dot doot.
voice 3 : i am bored.
voice 4 : i know.
voice 3 : you're not bored?
voice 4 : i don't know what the word means.
voice 3 : you -
voice 1 : cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.
voice 2 : cheep, cheep, cheep, chirp, cheep.
voice 3 : you don't know what it means? it means -
voice 4 : we're goldfish.
voice 3 : no reason you can't be educated. it means you've lost the desire to figure something new to do, or to repeat what you've done because you've repeated it so many times you could get bored even doing it in different ways.
voice 1 : bubble. bubble.
voice 2 : bubble. bubble. blop blop. bubble.
voice 4 : you can't use the word you're defining in the definition.
voice 3 : you just did?
voice 4 : no i didn't i used -
voice 1 : gurgle gurgle gurgle.
voice 4 : i used two diff-
voice 1 (louder) : gurgle gurgle gurgle.
voice 4 : two different form of a word and -
voice 1 (very insistent, worried) : gurgle?! gurgle?! gurgle?!
voice 4 : it's ok to do that.
voice 1 (defeatedly) : plop?