Fool for Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill

MAY: He’s gone.

MARTIN: He said he’d be back in a second.

MARTIN: All the horses are loose.

THE OLD MAN: (to MAY) She drew me to her. She went out of her way to draw me in. She was a force. I told her I’d never come across for her. I told her that right from the very start. But she opened up to me. She wouldn’t listen. She kept opening up her heart to me. How could I turn her down when she loved me like that? How could I turn away from her? We were completely whole.

She was a force. I

Once their eyes meet they never leave each other’s gaze.)

EDDIE: (calmly to OLD MAN) It was your shotgun. Same one we used to duck hunt with. Browning. She never fired a gun before in her life. That was her first time.

THE OLD MAN: Nobody told me any a’ that. I was left completely in the dark.

And Eddie’s mother — (Pause. She looks straight at EDDIE) — Eddie’s mother blew her brains out. Didn’t she, Eddie? Blew her brains right out.

We got sick at night when we were apart. Violently sick. And my mother even took me to see a doctor. And Eddie’s mother took him to see the same doctor but the doctor had no idea what was wrong with us.

I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t even feel sorry for her. All I could think of was him.

THE OLD MAN: (to EDDIE) She’s gettin’ way outa’ line, here.

Nobody saw him after that. Ever. And my mother— just turned herself inside out. I never could understand that. I kept watching her grieve, as though somebody’d died. She’d pull herself up into a ball and just stare at the floor. And I couldn’t understand that because I was feeling the exact opposite feeling.