THE GIRL

LIGHTS ON:
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Knowledge leaves no room for chances. Hope deals with the future. The present and the past are but servants that wait on hope with impulse and suggestive circumstance. The dead come not back to redeem the pledges of the living. For the living, at least, there are pledges to redeem…that’s for the living who have pledges to redeem because, not all the living have pledges to redeem. Wouldn’t a perfect example of such persons be the girl and her friends? Who cried over the loss of something they never had? How ridiculous! They had cried over the loss of everything they never had…not until their native power got reinforced by love to such degree that their speech took a masculine strength and at times a poet’s favor, informing their very bold utterance of expository absurd revelatory declarations which, ironically, happen to awaken the consciousness of many to the possible reality of prominent situations.
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FEMALE FRIENDS
Look at this house! Look at the many presents, such as gratifies the vanity of kings—purple togas, ivory chairs, golden pateroe—chiefly valuable on account of the imperial hand which had honorably conferred them. What good riddance to champion courses that entitle one to such honors! Must feel good to be you, girl!

THE GIRL
It’s not just about championing courses that entitle one to honors. Don’t forget the ill fights that precede the championing of such courses. Nothing good comes easy.

FEMALE FRIENDS
As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has always steadily before him a glorious result in prospect, a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death. Fighting to champion such courses couldn’t have been a big deal for you, given your spur to fight. Weren’t you stirred into combat on account of wrongs perpetrated against you by crime busters?

THE GIRL
I happened to hail from a religious background that had me severely punished for many years for not having sex! Had no option but to turn a new leave and restitute!

FEMALE FRIENDS
All is fair in love and war, we guess!

THE GIRL
There's possibly an empty & insane vessel somewhere who's somehow wired to a filled & sane person & is being used as a remote control to navigate the affairs of the filled & sane vessel for sex-sport...to the viewing delight of audiences. And it's acceptable for a filled & sane vessel to be made a jerk of like that? That’s why people go where they ought to go. Fight who they ought to fight, even the public, for, the public remains cold when its ideal character of loyalty and honor is not satisfied. Do unto others what you wish others to do onto you...not what you think others deserve...because those you may deem as being deserving of a thing may not be deserving of the thing you consider them as being deserving of. The principle is simple: live and let's live. For those who wouldn’t uphold that principle, fighting comes in handy. And if there be trophies tied to winning such fights, good riddance!

FEMALE FRIENDS
And if this trophy imposes the conformity you so dread? Like love & marriage?

THE GIRL
Truth must precede Love & Marriage. Truth is the absence of commitment, which involves fatal steps towards conformity. To impose conformity is to impose truth.

MALE FRIENDS
Note those propagating the idea of love & marriage while leaving truth out. They have things to hide: public secrets which could be known by all but concealed from one fellow...the “mark.” As long as the truth remains unknown, the fellow to whom truth remains unknown--is the mark. Even dumb kids may know the truth. Why should clever adults not know? Or clever adults are better marks than dumb kids?

FEMALE FRIENDS
The problem nowadays is truth. A trophy that imposes conformity via love & marriage would be questionable, wouldn’t it? You have lived a lie thus far. Are you expected to now love a lie and marry a lie? Truth is incontestable. Where truth is, lie can’t have its way. But lie seeks to have its way by bending the truth. That's a sheer impossibility, if you ask us. But lie seeks to break a record...an impossible thing to do, hence this seemingly long drawn-out postwar fights. Very pointless!

THE GIRL
Surely! My getting a trophy for championing those courses should be indicative of a cease fire. But shitty psychos do not think so. Need I fill you in on present goings?

FEMALE FRIENDS
Indulge us!

THE GIRL
That they don’t want me doing the things they do to gain power and advantage over me in order to bring me into submission? That they don’t want me to have sex too? So they can use sex to bring me into submission and not have me fight back using sex? That, now that my gifts and talents have beaten their philandering to it, they now seek to kill my gifts and talents? So that I may stand no chance at all with defending myself? Not to mention gaining power and advantage over them too?

MALE FRIENDS
So now that you don't even have to sleep around to gain that power, what are they gonna do? Now that you’ve made useless the sex they weaponized in the art of war, will they now not have to be equally adorned with multiple gifts & diverse talents?

THE GIRL
Someday I'm gonna find out who had all those years been interfering with my intimate life & even went as far as interfering with what tends to seem like what would have been my marriage, & even now still trying to make sure I don't get myself a partner...like he or she would die if I do. Well, such a person is already destined to die because, when I find them out, it will be nothing but World War III.

FEMALE FRIENDS
If at 30+ years of age they still think you’re ineligible to sex, then put it to them that you’re ineligible to submit to them nor subscribe to their conformity as regards love & marriage. Fucking around and determinedly requiring you to love who you don't know? How? What if you told them to go fuck who they don't know? What if?

THE GIRL
If their desire to subjugate me can drive them to the point of fucking in public, it is my desire to not let myself be subjugated by such ass holes! I should remain chaste to communicate with them? What do they have to do to communicate with me? Fuck around? They want me to marry a certain person so they might conscript me into their army and get me to fight their foes who aren’t my foes? If I show up when their kids are set to marry and seek to do same to them, will they be okay with that?

MALE FRIENDS
Go with the option that makes for progress. Don't bother with winning or losing. You can win and retrogress. You can lose and progress. So aim for progress. Bother less with those capitalizing on singlehood to conceal truth with marital deception.

THE GIRL
I was abandoned by them all...left to die. Having managed to survive and live, in their guilt, they seek to come through as helpers to make it seem like that's not what they did. To hide many hideous crimes they committed. I won't buy into that sham!

FEMALE FRIENDS
What then is all that talk about “bridge of contract” and your refusal to cast a vote?

THE GIRL
We have no contract. Hence, no vote to cast. It's all deception! It’s what they do. Ignorance is capitalized upon to draw a person into searching for answers...a means of fostering a merry-go-round that "accesses more" for them, whatever that more is. How people get roped in to do that? I don't know. How people rope themselves out of it? I guess that's what's to be sought out...which brings about searches that foster the merry-go-round that “accesses more” for them all the same. Sexually immoral adulterous divorcees…seeking to be mentors and teachers? 21st century, I guess!

MALE FRIENDS
Some single ladies want to marry. But they aren’t looking for men to marry. They are looking for sons to mother under the guise of marriage…and will go to any length to reduce men to boys just to make sons out of them…using love as the premise. So it’s possible for men to make play toys out of other men and play them like ping-pong? Subjecting them to a life of following cues, clues, impulses and all manner of nonverbal communication when just a few words can relay the intended message? And it’s also possible for mere men to make spiritual messengers out of other men without the knowledge of those men? So one can be mentored by silent & unseen folks? In such cases, one might as well be dealing with blind, deaf mutes!

THE GIRL
You see what they do to me?

FEMALE FRIENDS
Stop! Stop now! Our subconscious are metaphorically screaming at us! Stop! Stop!

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With arms folded, leaning on their legs and tapping their feet in frustration, they admonish the girl, even passing instructions that get on her nerves and trigger impulsive responses.
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FEMALE FRIENDS
Get in your car! Go somewhere! Do some studying! Forget about them…Now! And stop all this self-pitying, wallowing crap! A person can get used to anything if given enough time. Like the mafias say: “all problems resolve themselves...given time.”

THE GIRL
Just so you know, the reason I'm bent on looking back in anger is that I may wallow in "self-pity" & indulge "cheap vulgarism." And oh, lest I forget...that I may also execute vengeance. Whatsoever a man sows, that, shall he reap! Isn’t that biblical? A husband tries to rid himself of his wife by arousing her interest in another man, only to discover that he can't give her up... yet? And then asks the other man to give him some time to savor her some more before handing her over to him? What husband does that? To what wife? Should a wife subscribe to such idea? To the idea of the other man waiting for her husband to savor her some more before he gets rid of her? And the other man is okay with such sick arrangement? 21st century crap?

FEMALE FRIENDS
A wife who ought to be a doll, we guess! Ibsen’s “A Doll’s house” comes to mind.

MALE FRIENDS
Put them in their places by reading because they seek to make themselves appear chaste & pure by hiding their sexual acts from the ones they are supposed to serve, even when the entire world is privy to it. So that after "triumphing" with sex, they come out & show themselves off as people of virtue, requiring to be treated as such, even instituting virtuous principles & requiring one who is more chaste than them to abide by those principles, making it seem like they can't be in places where those principles aren't upheld. It's all pretensions. The fall guy is the one who's marked to be played, deceived, lied to, cheated on, deprived, & made to appear like the dark black sheep that needs the light to set him on right paths. Paranoia is the way to go.

THE GIRL
I don't care what their ambitions are or whatever! But determining to rope me into it is what I will not allow! For whatever I allow on earth is allowed in heaven. And whatever I disallow on earth is disallowed in heaven! I disallow this one! They won’t use sex to rule my destiny and turn around to use my Chasity against me. No! I’ve told them, separate me from you and separate you from me. This thing won't work. I will make sure of that. So I’ll be running around as a common person to organize for them, and what qualifies me for that is Chasity? While what qualifies them to boss over me is sex? That's why I'm not supposed to have sex too? So that I don’t also boss up? Even when it didn't take sex for me to qualify to boss up? How did sex come to be this exalted? To the point of controlling other people's destinies with it? Not to mention cajoling those people to consider themselves as righteous, not knowing their righteousness is the very reason for their affliction? No more! And when they tell me to "go," they're simply telling me to go to church and keep up with the afflicting righteousness so that they can continue to fuck and boss over me? And the church is supposed to impose limits on me? Do people not go to church to become unlimited? But the one I’m supposed go to--is the one that’s supposed to subject me to unwelcome limits? Enforced by sex? And they think I'll go? Really?

FEMALE FRIENDS
Sweetie, extend not your grievance to God. He is no man. This we urge: get blessed by God’s word. But don't get entrapped by it. What blesses you is what they use to entrap you. Your abstinence is not tied to holiness or righteousness. It is tied to relationship. The moment you have a relationship, you will have sex! Basically, what you’re looking for is not biblical. It is carnal. Now that freedom has come, whoever doesn't come out of the shadow to communicate can go fuck themselves!

MALE FRIENDS
Those who've deprived you want you to do something for them in place of your sexual gratification. Find out what it is and ruin it when it is committed to you.

THE GIRL
That unseen person they're so insistent on me loving and marrying, after they've gotten me to love and marry the person abstractly, since they’re bosses of abstract endeavors, I will be awaiting the physical manifestation. They say it first happens in the spirit realm before actualizing in the physical. This one, it’s like it’ll end in that realm because, in this physical realm, it is as I say it is! They can bet on that! Hadn’t they said that whatever I need, I will receive? Whatever? I needed a job that pays N5,000,000 monthly. It is months now and the job hasn’t come through! Yet the shitty requests they put in my mind and made me utter with my mouth are the ones they insist I must receive by force? So much for multitude of counselors!

FEMALE FRIENDS
That’s why one ought not to seek “revelatory depth” that stems from unaccounted sources, thinking: “it’s the inspiration of the almighty that gives me understanding and opens me up to Rhema.” Such revelatory depth could be products of flesh: (contacts of men’s spirits via sex). And if one makes no such contacts yet can access such revelatory depth, how so? So, seek it not…and wave them off when they come.

MALE FRIENDS
And note: the multiple counselors, teachers, voices, etc., seemingly giving you heads up is just one fellow. The teachings, counsels, heads up, etc., are all but confessions. No matter what it teaches, counsels, etc., it still always wants to make you feel like you're losing, to give the impression that the only way forward is to "do as it dictates." A schemer whose schemes have boomeranged and it now seeks to exploit the store of your human compassion and naivety to achieve whatever venomous goal it seeks to achieve this time. It always makes you feel like the right options are the wrong ones and the wrong ones the right ones. Therefore, just do as you please. Try as much as you can to not heed whatever it routs to you. It always requires you to do things it knows you have no idea how to do. The moment you uncover how to do that thing, it shifts and requires you to do another thing it knows you have no idea how to do. The aim is to get you to follow and trust it. When that scheme fails, it turns around and teaches you its con to enlighten you and earn your trust. All lies. Just get the enlightenment. Regard not the enlightener. At the end, whatever path you tilt towards, it follows along, applauding you and making you feel like it led you along that path. A directionless puppet who covets the office of a director, with puppeteers everywhere...all working hand-in-hand to hedge you in & win the bet. So, there are counselors all over social media so that if you figure it out, the moment you get online, they hit you hard! The aim is to keep you unsettled on the inside, always seeking answers that aren't to be found. When nabbed, it comes out plainly to declare that “it is the one,” making it seem like it was deliberate & not intended to be hidden from you. Hiding in plain sight. It still applauds you for nabbing it. If you desert it, it applauds you. Whatever you do, it cheers you on. It just tails you for a yet to be uncovered motive, & it's all the doing of the puppeteers!

FEMALE FRIENDS
Why does it seem like they can’t get their eyes off you? Well, often one loses the bait when they catch the fish. That is a necessary loss. If you are the bait that was lost to catch a fish, which was deemed more of a catch than you, then make sure you remain a necessary loss. No losing you to catch a fish; then coming back to get you!

THE GIRL
Imagine being a theatre artiste & constantly having issues with directors & critics! That's bold & enviable! Whatever role they want me play, I won't play. They better quit trying to rope me into it! How can they be fucking around to preserve their CEO-ship while imposing Chasity on me so I can manage for them? Are they nuts? They’ve been watching me all these while and wouldn’t say a thing? Despite my dilemma? Reminds me of Chimamanda's "The World Was Watching While We Died." Some brag about perfection & claim there's nothing they can’t do when they can't even let go of gayness & be straight! Jeez! Isn’t that why those lots loath sex?

MALE FRIENDS
Perhaps they deem you a Jesus who shouldn’t get sexually involved with followers of yours. How can Jesus & sex be put in the same phrase? Maybe they’re purposely standing in the way of Jesus & Jesus’ own--in a bid to foster religiosity of some sort. Perhaps they wanna know you better than they know their pastor. Thought of that?

THE GIRL
(Flares up)
Who is Jesus? Who is Jesus' own? And who's standing between Jesus & Jesus' own? Why is he or she standing between Jesus & Jesus' own? How is he or she doing that without Jesus knowing? And how does Jesus' own know this & Jesus doesn't? Why does Jesus—who is supposed to be all-knowing, seem to be at a total loss regarding everything while Jesus' followers who should look to him for enlightenment; seem to wield every detail of everything & it seems like Jesus would have to look to them for enlightenment? What really makes him Jesus? Being that this Jesus happens to be the one needing enlightenment from his followers & these followers surround him, why don't they deal him that enlightenment? Why do they seem to prefer his lordship over them in that state of total loss regarding everything? Why do they?

FEMALE FRIENDS
(Flare up too)
Yes! Why? Why does it also seem like Jesus' legitimate followers are willing to fill him in but there are some sort of low budget alphas & omegas somewhere who are determined to stand in the way of that happening? So they can reign in Jesus' stead while supposedly sending Jesus away into oblivion or something like that? So they don't want Jesus around but want to superintend over what belongs to Jesus? To kill the heir & take over the heir's inheritance? Or is Jesus supposed to be made to think that someone somewhere is trying to get rid of him and takeover what belongs to him so that Jesus can go searching for what's his that he doesn't know about? How is it his, then, if he doesn't know about it? And why does he have to search for it when he can simply be pointed to it? And why does it take forever to find this thing? Seems like Jesus has been searching for years and still hasn't found it. Yet so many nobodies have gotten to know about this thing without even searching...and in just a matter of months...weeks, even days! What's the deal with Jesus and searching?

THE GIRL
This fellow who's standing between Jesus & Jesus' own, could he be a preacher? The one with a daughter? How would Mr. Preacher feel if someone stood between him & his daughter like he’s doing to Jesus & Jesus' own? I guess Mr. Preacher won't answer that. But will want to impose a separation between Jesus & Jesus' own. Well, Mr. Preacher shouldn't forget that the same imposition can be meted on him and his "beloved" daughter. The people are watching, I guess. Mr. Preacher shouldn't stand between Jesus & Jesus' own for whatever freaking reason in the world! Because if he does, someday someone is gonna stand between him and his daughter and he’ll feel exactly the way Jesus and Jesus' own are feeling about him standing in their way. Mr. Preacher better be warned! No one will tell me who to marry! All the witchcraft in the world, even if spearheaded by the king of witches and wizards, won't decide who I marry or "love." They can manipulate my dreams all they want, it will be all for nothing! They won't decide a thing about my intimate life! They can do that to their kids, not me! So get off my dreams! And damn them with that shit they call sports! To hell with that witchcraft candidate they want to hook me up with! I'm not with them on that! If they made a deal to sell me off to one of such, that's on them! Quit bothering me! Get off my dreams! If they don't have answers for me, they shouldn’t instruct me! They’re instructing me to change? I should change? They're the ones fucking around and it's me who is to change? Seriously? Shey when reading proves to be a more potent tool in the game than sex, they will get out of the way so I can have relationship? Where a man's treasure is, there his heart will be also, isn’t it? If this treasure happens to be sex for me, what is that to anyone?

MALE FRIENDS
That reminds me. There’s this talk about treasures. And scriptures say that where a man's treasure is, there his heart will be also. What's this treasure? Which man owns this treasure? Where is this treasure? And what has it got to do with you?

THE GIRL
How am I supposed to know? What do I know about them other than the fact that they are forces constituting nuisance in my life & bent on not letting me have a lover in my life...intentionally scaring away potential mates from me. Gush!

MALE FRIENDS
Scaring away potential mates from you? Nonsense! As males, we’d say to females: if you're a girl & you know what scares you away from us, what's stopping you from exposing it? Abi you think say I be Bishop? Connect let us do one or two things as it is supposed to be! Expose whatever you see that makes you shy away from my advances! Cup don full! If dem tell you say I be Bishop, na scam! Dem never tell be before sef! At the same time, I no be Casanova. But ee get the one wey I be. Could be much more likeable than Casanova. Did I say "likeable?" Wrong word. It's actually loveable. And if you're "God," better not stand in our way of philandering. We didn't beckon on you to come do so. Alright? Rather, if I'm a gold digger & you have the chance to kill me, do it! But don’t let death thrive on the wings of silence!

THE GIRL
(Curious)
You started that statement with “as males, we’d say to the females...” using the third person perspective to relay your concern. Then along the line you digressed to “I...” switching to the first person perspective. I know about “you males.” But who is “I?”

FEMALE FRIENDS
These scenarios, are they real or mere games? Or real scenarios masked as games?

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Entering the stage are two fellows whose entry disrupts the flow of conversation that was ongoing between the girl and her friends. Their own conversation succeeds the former.
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WHOEVER
Even the awakening must be attracted. If the awakening isn’t attracted, then there isn’t any awakening in the first place. Just the illusion of an awakening…an avenue for deception. Never purchase fairly used items. They could be incriminating stuff in there…planted by the previous user(s)...intended to implicate you or make a fall guy out of you upon your purchase and usage of them. Buy only brand new items!

SOMEONE
Roger that!

WHOEVER
Just wanna go home & make love. Frankly, I’ve taken off my panties & everything. Whatever happened to instant gratification? What can I do to make you say yes?

SOMEONE
Nothing! Absolutely nothing!

WHOEVER
You own me. My fate is in your hands.

SOMEONE
I know.

WHOEVER
A lot’s happened since you went away. I’ll tell you later when we’re on our own.

SOMEONE
If you like.

WHOEVER
I’m now a firm advocate of instant gratification.

SOMEONE
Are you now? Really? Alright then...so what now?

WHOEVER
The search has been called off.

SOMEONE
Really? How long ago was that? And you made me continue with the search despite the fact that it had been called off? You made me continue? You must be punished!

WHOEVER
No, don’t go there.

SOMEONE
Alright. I hear you...loud and clear!

WHOEVER
I’m doing this because I finally met someone I wanna spend the rest of my life with.

SOMEONE
Really? So I've been a joke to you? Alright then. Pass me the I.V when it's out. Until then, don't fucking say a damn thing to me anymore! And, to hell with you!

WHOEVER
Not really so. But the mystery of marital breakthrough was finally revealed to me...and you were not there to cease the moment with me! Delay would have been dangerous!

SOMEONE
Really? And what’s this mystery of marital breakthrough that leaves one very little window to cease the chance to bail out of singleness and get a life partner? Tell me...will you?

WHOEVER
Fear of the known. It is common to fear the unknown…reason for the famed phrase: fear of the unknown. But has it ever crossed you that there could also be this phrase: “fear of the known?” It turns out the “known” can be as fearsome as the “unknown.”

SOMEONE
I don’t quite get you.

WHOEVER
Of course not. It’s not readily comprehensible. There’s also the devil that you don’t know and the angel that you know. Like they say: “the devil you know is better than the angel you don’t know.” Fine. But then…should one acquaint one’s self with devils? And to mention a comparison of devils to angels? How can one know a devil and not know an angel? Aren’t angels supposed to be acquaintances of humans? Aren’t devils supposed to be alienated from humans? How then does one know a devil he’s not supposed to know, esteeming that devil more highly than a supposed unknown angel he’s supposed to know? Isn’t such a person a devil himself? Why is there’s an angel that ought to be known who’s not known while the devil is known?

SOMEONE
I still don’t get you!

WHOEVER
The word, “truth,” refers to “facts that have been verified and are in conformity to reality and actuality; a true statement with the quality of being correct, true, or close to the true value.” That definition of truth would have been flawless if not for the clause inferred at the end: “…or close to the true value.” Ordinarily, there would be no need for what’s come to be deemed “naked truth” if truth were really statements of fact that are in conformity to reality and actuality—with the quality of being correct, true, and above all, verified. So, though the bible attests of truth as an unfailing phenomenon that is potently capable of delivering folks from backbreaking slaveries, there are deeper dimensions of truth, that—should I say—go beyond being capable of delivering folks from backbreaking slaveries to piercing to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and joints and marrow…even going as far as discerning the motives of one’s heart? I’m talking about dimensions of truth that strictly comprise plain unadorned facts without concealment & embellishment…the precise feature that earns it the qualifier: “naked.” Ever uncovered naked truths? How was the experience? Bad? Good? Ugly? Scary?

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Whoever’s tale ceases someone’s curiosity as much as that of the girl and her friends, who all draw towards the duo to learn the mystery of marital breakthrough that seems to have been uncovered.
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LIGHTS OUT:

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