T.I.T.S., Forced Beauty
La Mama Experimental Theater | Downstairs Theater | April 7, 2023
By Darvejon A. Jones

Lærke Grøntved, Photo by Steven Pisano

when does pleasure become pain?

Forced Beauty.
The smell of tomato juice, sweat, and baby oil.
Blood.

Violence.

My turn?!
No, not yet. “Swing the veins round and round…”
Round, round, round, round,
Let me. you want to try them on as a halter? top —
Let me.
Do you like it? Do you like me like this? Or this?
Or…?

Media: mediated real life.
Somehow, watching it on TV makes it bearable. Somehow, I can detach from what is in the room — who is in the room, the laughter.
I want to get up, I want to leave… but I know I need to stay; their work is not in vain. vein?

When does pleasure become pain? When does pain
become death? does death ever become, becoming?

Blood.
Bloody Mary.

Nela H. Kornetová and Lærke Grøntved, Photo by Steven Pisano

I want to get up.
I want to leave… but I know I need to stay/see how this ends,
their work is not in vain (swing the veins).

When does pain become pleasure? When does death
become pain?
When does death become becoming?
Why (How) does this end?

Bloody (Bloody) Mary.
Bloody (Bloody) Mary.
Bloody (Bloody) Tomato… juice, with a splash of oil of the baby.

“Time for an abortion”

Nela H. Kornetová, Photo by Steven Pisano

Word bank: tits, decorum, up, acts, hands, TV, ass
A mix that is sure to loosen you______, help shed that______,
Somehow, they are stronger on the ______.
The TV. The phone mediates these______.
The blood on your ______, your _____, your_______. your hands —
My eyes.

Do you like it? What about like this? Do you like it like this?

Say something, dammit!

What about this?

They’re going to keep going until you say “stop.” (please don’t stop!)

What about “sodomized with a tree branch?”
Do you like it? What about like that? Huh?!

Keep Going. Harder! we never said, “stop.”

When does pleasure become pain?

I want to leave.

When does ecstasy become violence?

But I know I need to stay.

Why do we do this to each other?
Why does someone have to die?
ecstasy. pain. pleasure. violence.
Bloody Mary.

Nela H. Kornetová and Lærke Grøntved, Photo by Steven Pisano

Bloody Mary. Bloody.

When does death become becoming?
Why do people look so peaceful when they’re dead?
Is this living?

applause.