Two characters, who look like tramps but could be wearing mouse masks, stare straight ahead.
One – Do you see that cheese over there?
Two – It’s all I’ve been seeing for a while now.
Silence.
One – Why haven’t we rushed over to it yet?
Two – I don’t know. I’m suspicious.
One – Me too.
Two – It’s too good to be true.
One – That cheese is a bit too fresh.
Two – It looks like it’s just come out of the fridge.
One – It doesn’t look like the bits of cheese you find on the ground or in the bins.
Two – In the bins, it’s only the rinds.
Silence.
One – And what’s that thing?
Two – What thing?
One – That bit of cheese is sitting on a little board.
Two – Oh yeah… I was so fascinated by the cheese that I didn’t notice the board.
One – A little board, with a little yellow metal bar.
Two – Yellow like gold.
One – Yes.
Two – It’s shiny, it’s pretty.
One – What do you think it is?
Two – A cheese platter?
One – Usually, we have to settle for crumbs under the table, and now they’re serving it to us on a platter.
Two – What are we waiting for?
One – Then again, that bit of cheese isn’t very big. It won’t be enough for two.
Two – Yeah…
One – Go ahead, you take it.
Two – I don’t know… What if it’s a trap?
One – We can’t just let it go to waste, that would be a shame.
Two – I think I’m going to give in to temptation.
One – After all… you only live once.
Two – Here I go…
Blackout.
Sound of the trap snapping shut.
Lights up.
Only the second character remains on stage.
One – Yeah, you only live once… And sometimes not even for very long. Well… now I can have that piece of cheese all to myself…
Blackout.

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