I need a miracle


There is so much traffic on Saturdays and no one can get it together. And here I am…late, as usual, on the way to the theater in Downtown Chicago.
I had an audition beforehand near Wrigleyville.

And there I was-and they hand me all these sides-cold!

You think they could send them? No!

You think they could get back to me and let me know that I can have an earlier time?

No! Uh-uh. I get there. I go right in and I read ’em cold and what is it?

It’s a sucky audition.

This is…this is…this is pitiful.

This is peanuts.

You hand me the sides…you hand me them right before I go in.

A long-ass monologue about how I’m being molested and my sister killed herself.

I mean what am I supposed to do?

And I go from one promotion to the next. And you know…It’s like the same upscale bar where the people are pretentious and they asked me where I got the glow stick from and I told them: “up my ass.”

And here I am in traffic. And there’s the show and it’s at 2:00 pm. And it’s 1:40 pm right now. And what am I supposed to do?

I mean, the stage manager, she’s just like “of course you’re late…NA NA NA!”

It’s like, “You know what?!”

And it’s like I don’t even care any more. I’m doing the best I can trying to do everything. And there’s traffic and there’s construction. And I have no idea where I’m going anymore…I’m just going crazy!

I can understand why people are driven to drink.

I can understand why and I understand. By the end of the week..I’m like fried.

I’m trying to do everything and be everything to everyone all the time and all I’ve gotta say is…

There better be a miracle.

There better be a miracle before something terrible happens before there can’t be a miracle anymore.

Because I need a miracle.

I need something different.

I am so ready for a change.

A good change.

A very good, very awesome amazing change.

I am ready for it.

And it’s not gonna happen when I get the sides a minute before I go in.

It’s not gonna happen. It’s not gonna happen.

It’s not gonna happen when I’m doing the same promotion I did last year dealing with the same mother-fuckers.

It’s not gonna happen.

It’s not gonna happen.

It’s all the same thing.

everyone…

everywhere…

it’s the SAAAAAAAAAAAME THIIIIIIIIIIIIING.

And here’s the street and it’s one way.