"Suit and Jacket"

Lula turns off the TV and sits really still. She is super pensive.

Lula: (to herself) “No”... that’s not how I wanted it to end. “How am I supposed to slow it down so I can figure out who I am?”

Darla walks in and throws a bag of chips at Lula and goes to sit next to her.

Darla: Yo. Are you done with your taxes yet? I want to watch the show. 

Lula looks at her friend, sadly.

Lula: No, I haven’t. 

Darla: Did you at least finish your bills?

Lula: Have you seen the markets? How is this possible? “I ain’t trading my dreams for no 401k,” you know?

Darla: No one told you to have money. You bougie. Also, you don’t even have to work if you don’t want to.

Lula: It distracts me. It keeps me going.

Darla: It keeps you ranting. You could do your dream job. 

Lula: “I ain’t giving this fire for a cold, cold heart” like you.

Darla: My heart is plenty warm. And “don’t say I’m getting colder.” Well at least I know myself well enough to “say it when I do” become cold hearted, “cause everybody I know” refuses to know themselves.

Lula: It’s called denial. “Everybody I know” is in denial. Too afraid of “growing old” and instead calling it adulting.

Darla: We are “growing old too quickly.” So do your damn taxes. I’m going to turn on the show so that we can go to that party later. 

Lula: What did you sign us up for? “I don’t wanna go.” Those things are too fast paced and everyone is fake. “How am I supposed to slow it down?”

Darla: Just smile and nod. Find the person who can’t stop talking. You’ll be fine. 

Lula: Guess “I can figure out who I am” then. 

Darla: Do you. For “some of us surviving” is the only goal.

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