KITCHENETTE
243
MIKEY: How's yourself, Mikie? How are you, Jo?
MIKIE: Do put yourself down, Mikey, and I'll make you - I mean -
and make yourself comfortable.
He ushers
MIKEY
to the box downstage.
Jo
(jealous):
She doesn't have to make herself too comfortable. She
isn't staying long.
MIKIE: Then neither am
l.
Jo
(quick switch) very eagerly):
Oh, could I fix you two some
coffee?
JOE
(standing on the upstage chair):
Oh, I thought you'd never ask!
Jo
(patting
JOE)S
crotch):
Coming up! Yes ... coming up....
MIKIE: What kind of business did you say you were in, Joe?
JOE: In the mattress business, of course, can't you see?
MIKIE: Oh, of course.
JOE: Yes, and is business bad these days! Up and down Gren Ave,
up and down, I tell you, and not a single comer!
Jo
(preparing coffee at the chest):
Coming up....
JOE
(indignant):
The other side of the street, Madame!
MIKEY
(dumbly):
Joe is so enterprising.
JOE: As I was saying, the mattress business is not lucrative. But it
does have its little compensations. Like, for instance, the people
you meet.
MIKEY
(on the box) facing the audience):
Oh, Joe, tell Jo and
Mikie about the kind of people you meet.
JOE: Silence!!
MIKIE : Yes, do tell us Joe.
JOE
(standing on the table top) needing no encouragement):
Well,
the other day I met this Turkish dancing
girl
on the street: and
she did the dance of the seven veils right on the street! Only she
reduced the dance of the seven veils to two veils, just two veils.
Belly-dancing) placing a veil in his belt) and a second one over
his face.
One of them she took off right away..... .
Discarding the veil hooked on his belt.
The other she never took off. . . .
Jo: How do you like your coffee, Joe?
JOE: I like my coffee like I like my men: - hot, sweet, and black!
MIKIE
(shocked) insane):
BLACK??? You really like them black?
