Simple Sanity

Simple Sanity

Ruth
Why don’t you try simple sanity?

Thomas
I have. It is as bland as cream of wheat minus the milk.

Ruth
But I can’t get into the mood when you babble.

Thomas
You make rationality so tempting my temptress.

Ruth
You better believe it. You’re a man. Don’t you want me to please you?

Thomas
Oh timbre of your voice in the throes of passion is divine opera.

Ruth
Then talk to me like a normal person. I need you to be normal for me.

Thomas
OK I’ll be normal.

Ruth
Music to my ears. Now let’s have a sane conversation.

Thomas
What do you want to talk about? The weather?

Ruth
Hey do I look like a meteorologist? Sometimes you really piss me off.

Thomas
Well the roses run in red rivers across the trellis under which our love bloomed.

Ruth
That’s beautiful. But I’m giving you fair warning. Cut it out or I’ll…

Thomas
Or you’ll part the Red Sea and escape the bondage of our marriage?

Ruth
Yea. That’s exactly right. But quit talking in metaphors. You know that drives me nuts.

Thomas
My language leaps over the literal into realms beyond reason.

Ruth
We are foreigners struggling in futility to find a common language.

Thomas
So sad isn’t it. A slight shift of my mind and harmony might ensue.

Ruth
Why can’t you just be yourself? All the jibber jabber gets you nowhere.

Thomas
Only to the fathomless depths of oceanic solitude.

Ruth
Where a warm touch is more distant than the stars. Just try to be normal for me please. I’m begging you. Do I have to get down on my knees?

Thomas
Well that sounds enticing.

Ruth
Be real dude. Talk straight with me. Get with the program.

Thomas
Easier said than done. Madness runs in the family.

Ruth
Like a pox.

Thomas
Oh I don’t know. I find myself pretty entertaining.

Ruth
You’re no Groucho Marx.