Sentimental

Monologue

Matthew Lee Knowles

January 2011
 I Choose Love!

Not winding & dancing & stabbing

Burning & turning & spinning
Jumping & bellowing & flickering
Hullabalooing & gabbing & whisking
Tumbling & drinking & going
Knowing & glistening & playing
Dancing & sparkling & thinking
Touching & stopping & telling
Flowing & sparkling & watching
Living & drifting & flying
Mourning & mourning & sailing
Fishing & craning & longing
Rising & falling & mourning
Striking & diving & craning
Puffing & drawing & moving
Screaming in spring & coursing
Splitting & speaking & tuning
Stopping & corrupting & weeping
Crying & flowing & melting
Laughing & breathing & spinning
Willing for nothingness & idealising
Shinning & breathing & lapping
Hemming & glancing & seeping
Drooping & crying & binding
Falling & blowing & stealing
Standing & staring & living
Things unloving & doing & unknowing
Having & loving & touching
Tracing & tracing & undoubting
Doubling & growing & shining
Setting & coming & misgiving
Spewing & ticking & feeling
Loving & staining nothingness
Leaving nothing & nothingness
Nothing, nothing, nothing
Loving & doubling & planning
Gliding & dancing in spring
Walking & skirting & crying
Waiting & posturing & visiting
Unending & spelling & stepping
Hastening & living & knowing
 Letting the waking being
Coming & sleeping & unfailing
Watching the loving being
Fighting & dying & leaving
Waiting & feeling & suffering
Groping & beating & dumfounding
Maddening & waiting & watching
Walking & toeing & skirting
Destroying & laying & trampling
Searing & breaking & consoling
Making & unsleeping & staring
Talking & unsleeping & unknowing
Harbouring & hoping & jarring
Speaking & moving & stepping
Breaking & living & turning
Turning & pointing & flying
Visiting & mistaking & meaning
Willing & neighbouring & unthinking
Putting & wanting bunting
Spring, longing & waking
Choking & living & rocking
Steadying & falling & shooting
Riding & bleeding & riding
Shooting & holding & speaking
Dripping & turning & undeserving
Living & living & flying
Spinning & believing & worshipping
Unbelieving & mourning the evening
Warming & listening & crying
Asking & closing & meaning
Saying things & replying
Knowing & dying & hissing
Growing & burning & crackling
Partying & baying & following
Hunting & crunching & rolling
Snaring & fastening & hanging
Unbecoming & living & opening
Opening & washing in spring
Exceeding & exceeding & writing
Growing & feeling & hearing
Leaning & tumbling & admiring
Coming & humming & leaving
Shining & leaving & lying
Twisting & confusing & sleeping
Carousing & lightning & opening
Breathing & living & sitting
Dancing & wrestling & rattling
Battling & bruising & loving
Crying & searching & swimming
Revolving & riding & stepping
 Crawling & hopping & crying
Moving & feeling & crying
Crying & feeding & knocking
Lying & lying & watching
Calling & sleeping & lapping
Hiding & watching in spring
Living & living & dying
Lamenting & loving & living
Building & building in spring
Spring & rounding spring
Spring & cuckooing & living
Living & heeding & winding
Binding & waking & flying
Falling & springing & pecking
Nestling & lightning & quickening
Mourning & wearing & drinking
Drooping & snarling & raging
Sloping & revolving & living
Trembling & thudding & housing
Paying & everlasting facing
Fathering the living spring
Wringing & unfailing & sipping
Dying & holding & saluting
Darting the lightning spring
Walking & breathing & bowing
Burning & scalding & singing
Curving through morning
Wailing through morning
Spurning & stripping & praising
Dreaming & falling & ruffling
Trembling & unending & revolving
Moving & acquainting & mouthing
Blowing and hanging in spring
Unfolding & hanging & lifting
Breaking & warning nothing
Meeting & growing & multiplying
Singing & crying & sounding
Divorcing the ageing spring
Scalding with telling song
Falling in divining spring
Skinning & hanging & discussing
Painting something putrefying
Nudging & howling & leaping
Waxing & hanging & growing
Flaming string & meaning
Surrounding string & freezing
Living & sleeping & winding
Throwing & lying & loving
Blowing & faring & clocking
Setting & boiling & shelling
 Leaping & shifting nothing
Chiming & muscling & spinning
Kissing at the beginning of spring
Rooting & burning
Beginning & beginning
Mounting & rolling
Beginning & beginning
Translating & shaking
Shaking & forking
Beginning & cooking
Breaking string
Hatching string
Winging & muscling
Rehearsing & sweet hearting
Smoking & curling
Smelling & wearing
Rubbing & Slaving
Starving & Scouting
Assuming & working
Crabbing morning
Hearing & hearing
Walking & wagging
Morning & meaning
Spelling & coming
Running & running
Stalking & musing
Descending & knocking
Everything & leaning
Depending on ending
Shifting & placing
Dreaming & reaching
Dreaming & blowing
Dreaming & gabbing
Unknowing & climbing
Living & sleeping
Waking & losing
Climbing & climbing
Breaking & rotating
Driving & creasing
Melting & scalding
Marching & forcing
Struggling & enrobing
The swing of spring
Sucking & braiding
Rotating & horning
Tracking & incising
Buckling & strewing
Crossing & marking
Bearding & burning
Binding & working
 Foaming in spring
Working & ribbing
Milling & mauling
Seafaring & riding
Hanging & loving
Flashing & laying
Beginning & spinning
Raising spring
Beginning in spring
Forcing & hearing
Ending & voyaging
Departing & turning
Turning & splitting
Making & decaying
Rotating & lightning scraping
Scaling & thrusting at the hamstring
Locking & boiling
Pouring & shaking
Flying & harassing
Suffering from the beginning
Ascending & marking
Babbling & towering
Destroying my darlings
Unknowing & sewing
Biting in spring
Walking & cementing
Unwrinkling & engraving
Holding & defying & telling
Playing & walking
Shooting & thrusting
Knocking & climbing
Descending & shuffling
Weathering through spring
Nagging & burning
Smiling & cutting
Climbing & singing
Stinging & singing
Rocking from the beginning
Ringing & flying
Diving from the beginning
Talking & shaping
Fiddling & shaping
Hanging through the morning
Dying & loudening
Breaking through railings
Padding & rising & falling
(my spring darlings)
my spring ridings
Burning & singing
Walking & turning
 Blazing in the beginning
Flying & tapping
Stumbling & tapping
Leaping & war bearing
Rumbling & quickening
Quickening & settling
Foreign sky-scraping grave groping
Foreign lying & updating
Quickening & unsettling
Treading & sailing
Pacing & leaking
The warring doing
Warning & dazzling
Sailing & nesting
Uneaten & hailing
Warning & wringing
Approaching & darting
Burning & lightning
Suckling & forgiving
Glistening & lamenting
Spelling & shrouding
Roaring & crawling
Raging & sinking
Living & flying
Whinnying through morning
Snivelling & crossing
Swing & sing
Mourning whilst strutting
Taking & meaning
Meaning & wooing
Smiling, spying & whispering
Pouring & looking
Guarding & bellowing
Blazing & puffing
Pleasing & unwinding
Vanishing & counting
Whirring, spitting & shrivelling
Bringing & squawking, scudding & burning
A thundering bullring
Eating & lying
Terrifying & saying
Saying & playing
Charmingly saying<
Explaining my undoing via lightning
Rocking, toppling & burning
Coming & making
Thinning & dazzling
Coming & beginning
Winning & twinkling
Smiling & cunning
 Waiting & scudding
Coming & loving
Descending & biding
Wanting & striding
Aspiring & renouncing
Living & blessing
Translating from the beginning
Vaulting & living
Tossing & turning
Bouncing & burning
Coiling until morning
Scarring through morning
Breaking during morning
Waking after morning
Snapping & spinning
Bursting & paddling
Sitting & hopping
Flashing & carrying
Thrashing my wings
Combing & navigating
Walking & growing
Studying & riding
Waiting & feathering
Living & falling
Failing as king
Weighing & bouncing
Dodging & snivelling
Evenings besotting
Hawking nothing
Wanting & singing
Wagging & blessing
Bustling & counting
Flogging & leaving
Blowing & building
Melting & embracing
Sitting & rusticating
Leaving & lying
Bearing & rapping
Howling & sighing
Leaving & lying
Crowing through morning
Burning whilst sleepwalking
Enamouring & swaddling
Resembling & celebrating
Solemnizing & assailing
Circling & covering
Dissolving & sleeping
Treading & taking
Flying & estranging
(sing!)
 Locking & unlocking
Raining & thunder clapping
Quivering at a wedding
Carrying & thrashing
Hooking & looking
Drinking & dwindling
Praying & fuming
Nothing plunging, nothing piercing
Raining & weaving
Rushing & lightning
Making & flashing
(he sings at weddings)
Mounting & walking
(he sings)
Rejoicing & drifting
Wanting
(still he sings)
Walking kings, dropping
Laughing lightning springs
He clings & sings whilst drinking
Toppling & tossing
He clings & sings
Bearing & counting in the evening
Drifting & diving, through song
Holding & breaking
Moving, singing & soaking
Hunting, hilling & floating
Nothing, pacing, nothing
Bolting, entering & walking
Bouncing, walking & waking
Opening, unending, lightning morning
Catching, coursing, opening & drinking
Running, laughing, dodging the morning
Assembling a ring, flying the morning
Kneading & singing
Beginning & dying
Flying & lying
Rippling from the beginning
Burning & whirling
Burning & bearing
Sundering & telling
Loving & raining
Hearing & praying
Sailing & sleeping
Flying & rolling
Brimming & whistling
Wringing the morning
Blooming in spring
Turning the mornings
Listening & burning
 Turning & darkening
Flings, wings, observing
Curving & hearing & thinking
Hymning, prying & opening
Blessing, hearing & casting
Mothering, shining & singing
Crying, slumming & crying
Lightning, finding & dumbfounding
Finding & blazing
Exhaling & inhaling
Finding the morning!
Finding wings
Winding, happening & bearing
Bearing, lamenting & dazzling
Upcoming, beating & rooting
Falling & falling & deluging & charting
Miswriting this mornings evening
Blessing, lightning & blinding
Shooting, stoning spring
Weeping, morning, spring
Arising, toppling, spring
Floating, gliding & falling
Warning, drifting & burning
Sleeping, stirring the morning
Musing, stepping & dancing
Howling, blinding & howling
Melting & burning
Desiring, losing & engulfing
Dying wings in spring
Telling the glistening rings
Burning & singing strings
Exulting & dancing & flying
Kindling, dying & wading
Burning, floating & glowing
Flying, trumpeting & engulfing
Wings & wings in spring
Burning, wanting & flowering
Melting, making & fathering
Humbling, breaking & tumbling
Burning, going & unmooring
Riding, going & unmooring
Riding, blinding & anchoring
Winding, moving & grinding this
Crying, flying king
Beginning & ungrudging & going
Dying, caring & answering
Flying, crying & dying
Caring, dragging & burning
Turning, listening & flowering
Singing, wandering song
 Lilting, singing & running
Playing, bearing & flying
Flashing, shining & spinning
Walking, whinnying & nothing
Turning, morning & nothing
Rising, dying & singing
Raging, towering & riding
Loping, bleating & ranging
Rooting, echoing & telling
Knelling, bowing & baaing
Wheeling, dousing & pouncing
Falling, yawning morning
Leaping, soaring wings
Cawing, burning & whistling
Singing, leaping & riding
Singing, lying & turning
Hearing, raking & riding
Awaking swansong & wrangling
Fishing, stalking & prancing
Fabling, hymning & judging
Whispering, fishing & angling
Sailing, conceiving & longing
Pleading, curving & cudgelling
Roasting, pitching & milking
Riding, waiving & rippling
Coming, scurrying & vaulting
Hissing spring wings
Nothing swings & mouthing
Hungering & dying at weddings
Dying, dipping & sizzling
Dying, quivering & shimmering
Biding, sulking & skulking
Dying, flailing & pouting
Dying, roaring wings
Dying crying, sings
Lightning, dying, blinding
Dying, dying & doing
Seizing, racking & wreathing
Daubing, falling singing
Quaking, living & rocketing
Shackling, blessing, blessings
Bouncing, morning song
Shining spring praising
Abasing, grazing & whinnying
Browsing, leaping & shooting
Keeping a flaming ring
Crouching, unseeing & crying
Hurting & hating & burning
Lording, walking & leering
Willing this evening hour
 Fading & melting, living & loving
Missing wings & weeping
Sighing at the evening sleeping
Sighing at the evenings singings
Whisperings & imaginings
Covering & catching everything
Singing of flowering carpeting
Enveloping things
Enveloping things<
Enveloping nodding things
Making evening something
Spring, flowering, spring
Saying, seeking & idling
Looking wing, rising wings
Speaking, moving, lying & making
Waiting, waiting, waiting
Cleaving, creeping wings
Opening, going & unbending
Wading, unwavering wings
A burning, turning thing
Covering an uprising wing
A shining, spinning, waiting wing
Doing, living, singing, unmoving
Moving, overpowering, stirring, stepping
Uncaring, stroking, holding, touching
Trailing, pacing, entertaining, drawing
Springing, binding, moving, growing
Holding glowing, uncaring wings
Beating wings, spacing
Unmoving, shouldering & uprising
Twining, twining, sting, stings
Wasting, shining, bruising wings
Lifting buildings, psalming & calling

I Choose Love!
Not performing.