Omens are for example hearing someone say victory as they pass you in the street or to be staring at the little sulfur lamps in the grass all around the edge of the hotel garden just as they come on. Agave: How many names can I pry from the head of a pun? Chorus: Just one.
Chorus: O Agave! Agave: What? Chorus: Your sob has a name. Chorus: If you study it closely? Agave: Just a sob of a number. Chorus: If you think about it? Agave: A dismal little number. But then again, actually, not much of a number. Chorus: A realistic number? Agave: A frolic of a number. Chorus: A happy number? Agave: A clever number.
Agave: How many kings- Chorus: did you rip the cheeks off? Agave: How many cheeks- Chorus: did you pin to the delicate mouth of the mother? Agave: How many mouths did she need- Chorus: to finish the meat? Agave: Not so many. How many pins can dance on the head of a god? How many kings can you pin to the dance in my head? How many dances left stains on the woman he was? How many stains kept him quiet, O Agave! Agave: O! Chorus: Speak, Agave. Chorus: Choral interlude followed by Act IV.
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