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Stage empty. Lights up: LAURA and PELOSI. He is handcuffed. The two are seated face to face.
PELOSI
I did it.
LAURA
I know... but why?
PELOSI
Because...'cause he was... I mean, you know, he was a man of cruelty.
LAURA
He was a poet!
PELOSI
I killed him to save me...
LAURA
It's crazy...
PELOSI
I swear... I needed... I killed him for love... just it.
LAURA
Love?
PELOSI
I loved him... so much...
LAURA
I don't... never... I'll never understand this kind of love.
PELOSI
Please... I already said everything...
LAURA
Pelosi, look at me... you've stopped images... you've interrupted the ideas... you've destroyed new poems…
PELOSI
I'll pay very dearly for all of that.
LAURA
Tell me the truth. Who hired you?
PELOSI
What?
LAURA
He was a communist and homosexual... someone probably...
PELOSI
Nobody.
LAURA
Who?
PELOSI
Sorry, Laura! I know about your feelings... he was your friend... but it was my sentiment, too.
LAURA
I don't believe you.
PELOSI
(Crying.)
I did it for love!
LAURA
Love doesn't kill. Please, explain it to me. Who hired you?
PELOSI
Nobody! I killed Pier Paolo Pasolini!
LAURA
No... you didn't... society killed him... They turn off everything that illuminates...
(Blackout.)
**Roma, Italy, November 2, 1975. Giuseppe (Pino) Pelosi, a 17-year-old hustler, confessed that he killed Pier Paolo Pasolini, poet,
screenwriter, filmmaker, communist and homosexual. Laura Betti, an Italian actress, never believed this was a personal crime, but a political crime.
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