The Day They Shot John Lennon Monologue

THE DAY THEY SHOT JOHN LENON

[Across the street from the Dakota apartment building in New York City.  A light mist is falling.  SALLY (16) a white middle-class kid describes what SHE was doing when SHE heard the news that John Lennon had been murdered.  HER heart is breaking for the first time]

Sally:  I was doing my homework.  I had a lot that night.  I had a lot of geometry, I remember, and that’s not my best subject anyway.  I mean, I’m terrible at it if you want to know the truth.  And I heard it on my T.V. you know?  I had it down real low, ‘cause my mom doesn’t like me to play it when I’m doing my homework ‘cause she says I can’t concentrate.  But I can.  T.V. relaxes me.  And then I heard the news vaguely in the background.  And it didn’t seem real.  Maybe because it was T.V.  I mean it was realistic, y’know, but it didn’t seem real.  I wanted to talk to Kevin, to talk to Kevin, to talk to someone to make it seem real.  Kevin’s my boyfriend.  I mean, he used to be but then we broke up.  It’s a long story.  Anyway I wanted to call Kevin and talk to him to express something, to make it real, because I had to make sense out of it, and I knew Kevin would understand.  Kevin’s very intense.  Anyway my mother told me it was too late and I couldn’t call him, and so I had to go to bed. [Pause.]

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