I mean… What is the point? 

What do you mean? 

I mean in order to begin we must have a point, we must have something grander to talk about, I must think about what I want to say.

No, you don’t need to do that. 

Yes I do! 

Why? 

Because… 

Look, what if we just started with something simple, and then expanded on it, that is what I would do. 

But then it will be empty and meaningless, we must have a point. 

Perhaps we will find the point we want to make along the way. 

That doesn’t make anysense. 

Just trust me, let's try doing it my way, as doing it your way is not getting us anywhere. 

Okay fine, let's just start with no plan, no direction, no meaning, and pray it will just appear. 

Pray to whom?

I don’t know, it's just what some people say.

Said by whom? 

Let’s just start okay?

okay.

“It was a dark and stormy night..” 

No No No this is lame; overplayed, can we try something else.

You're so picky, I thought you wanted to ‘go with the flow.’ 

I mean just because we are ‘going with the flow’ doesn’t mean we can’t try.

Fine restart. 

okay. 

“There was a man waiting on a long, slim, platform. 

His eyes were cold and his watch was broken.

The man sat waiting just like everybody else. 

The man would wake up every day dark and tired;

Never bright and early.”

And you said I was lame.

Will you just give it a moment?

Fine, but just want to say..

No, say? say nothing, let's continue or you're going to ruin it.

Fine.. fine. 

“The train's light would illuminate from around the corner.

Sometimes he would lean forward; pretending just to sway back and forth.

But he just wanted to get closer, unassuming.

Crawling closely to the moving train, the silver bullet. 

Wanting something but wanting nothing. 

The train called to him, a sirens song. 

He knew that when he got on the train it would bring him to the same places he had been before. 

Moving nowhere with a lot of motion." 

I still don’t get it. 

Will you shut up?

Sorry, sorry, my intention was not to interrupt, I just don’t understand. 

I mean of course you don’t, it is still bundling together, and building, and becoming: its own grandeur. 

What? could you please stop just saying things?

… let us continue.

“He thought, maybe he could beat the train. 

Go somewhere he had never been before. 

He could choose to make his own door. 

Finally carve his own foot path and blaze his own trails. 

At sometimes he would get so close to the edge of the platform he felt just one more impulse of thought would bring him to his prophesied solution. 

But he never did.”

Ah I see now.

Do you? Do you really?

No.

“He never took his final steps (well at least not at the station).

The man did meet his end much later, much happier, and much more satisfied. 

He found a solution to his problem by no longer engaging in it.

He stopped taking the train. 

He found a less dangerous place to create the path he wanted to follow.

He still died.”

I’m so tired, can we break for a second?

What about developing a ‘meaning.’ 

I mean sure, but this seems like an appropriate place to stop and consider, what do you think so far?

Do you want me to be honest?

I swear, just tell me what you think.

You swear?

You know what I mean, just tell me what you think.

I think.. I think that it would be better if we had deliberated beforehand.

Well we didn't, so tell me what you think with what we have.

What do we have?

You know what I mean, stop being pretentious.

Yes yes, I think what we ‘have’ could be acquainted with jumbled nonsense.   

You don’t think that, do you?

No no, but I’m still upset with the execution.

Well try being more like me, try, just for a moment, to be like me. 

You know that won't end well. 

Fine, just try and imagine that this whole process has been an exercise to find meaning of what we will be creating. 

Well if you put it like that, in this hypothetical, I think that the construct is abrupt, and its ending does not encapsulate the message trying to be convey.

I told you, I got tired.

That is no excuse, the meaning still becomes fogged.

I thought there was no meaning?

You see I try to play this game, you beg me to play, and then you mock me. 

It is my nature. 

I know, but it is still rude. 

Look, I get what you are saying, but I think it has merit on its own, clearly it has a point it is trying to make. 

Maybe, but there is no meaning given so there is no meaning. 

This is going nowhere, should we try again? 

Yes I agree, could we try and make something less gloomy? Something a little more deliberate as well?

I suppose, what did you have in mind?

In mind?

Stop, just stop, you know what I mean. 

Yes I do, but it's in my nature. 

You are the worst. 

Let’s make something about love, lets make something about being in love, about being happy about being in love. 

I am upset with the premise, but I suppose you did allow me my way, lets try it your way.

It’s about time you listen to me. 

Wait wait wait, so we are just gonna scrap all of the previous?

To be fair to you, I will keep: the man. 

You know that is not fair to me. 

Would you rather I scrap everything?

Yes, and you know that. 

I know that. 

“Once upon a time, there was a man.”

Wow how original.

For once I agree, let me try again.

  “A man sits happily tapping his feet as beams of sun bounce off his skin dancing. 

The straps of his satchel wrap him tightly, and his partner sits beside him staring at the straps jealousy.

The man’s mind wanders mindfully mindlessly, depicting scenes of sparrows nesting and loving lovingly. 

His wife’s mind depicts pictures and tapestries of absolute comfort in beds of feathers and her husband's hands.”

Okay what’s next. 

I don’t know, I thought you had a plan.

No I did have a plan, but to approach whatever is next we must have a new one. 

You mean you must have one.

Well I’m considering where I want this to go, maybe the man and his partner should be deeper.

For someone who wants direct meaning you seem awfully comfortable playing with things to find it. 

You're right, before we continue we should lay out exactly what is to come. 

That is not what I want, nor what I said. 

Doesn’t matter, that is what we will do. 

What if they get into an argument?

No, that doesn’t fit the theme.

What if the man gets up and stretches?

No, I kind of want them on the bench.

What if they kiss?

No, there has to be something else before that.

What if the woman has a gun in her purse?

No, I mean maybe.. but no.

What if they begin feeding birds?

No, I don’t think they would do that. 

What if the man has a secret that he can’t tell her, but she really needs to know it.

No, I don’t think they would have secrets, they are in love. 

What if..?

No, probably not that either. 

Well what do you want?

I want something that will fit inside the theme. 

I feel like I have given you plenty of things to add to your theme.

Well! They are not good enough. 

They are never going to be good enough.  

Probably not.

So this is useless.

useless? 

Yes, useless. 

How dare you, we made something with meaning, how could it possibly be useless?

Because what YOU made could be acquainted with jumbled nonsense.

That’s rude. 

I KNOW.

Nevertheless we must keep pushing, we have to make something.

I agree but doing it your way is literally getting us nowhere. 

I know what you are thinking.

We should restar..

-NO, no no no, we are so close.

That’s not true and you know that. 

But it has meaning! It does, it does, it does. 

Maybe, but barely and it's not going anywhere. 

Fine, let's restart.

Thank you, let's restart.

But how do we begin? 

What if we just go with the flow.

That’s not going to work.

Why not? What's the problem?

I mean… What is the point?

What do you mean?