Eleemosynary - Comedic Monologue

Lingua Stage
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Hi, I'm Nadia Walemsky, I'm 16 years old,
and I will be performing one of Echo's monologues from his play, Elimasenry.
Glunch. G-L-U-N-C-H. Glunch. I knew I was right.
Glunch is such an easy word. What's his word?
Donzel? I should have had Donzel, that's not fair!
He guessed. He guessed! And got it! I could kill him!
Yes ma'am, I'm ready.
Palinode? Palinode, great, I love that word. Palinode.
Thank god, thank god I deserve it. I've had too many hard words and he's guessed on too many.
Palinode. A poem in which a poet takes back something he said in another poem.
Palinode. P-A-L-I-N-O-D-E. Palinode.
This can't go on forever, buddy. I'm going to crack you like an egg.
What's his word? Ovoviviparousness? I know that! I know it!
He's guessing, I know he's guessing! Oh my god, please just let me win.
Five minutes. Just five minutes where all the lights are on me and I'm the most famous child
in America. And then you can throw me back in the ocean with everybody else, I don't care.
I'll be one with the rabble, the hoi polloi, the clam jam fry, the...
What? Excuse me, could you repeat the word please?
Clam jam fry? She asked the exact word I was thinking of. Clam jam fry.
C-L-A-M-J-A-M-F-R-Y. Clam jam fry. I know everything in the whole world.
