Infamy

 

Don ZALUCHI 

(after some laughter from The Group,
The King-Fool rises 

to speak -- He got words.) 

I also don't believe in drugs. For years 

I paid my people extra so they
wouldn't do that kind of business. -- 

[Tattaglia whispers something to his aide] 

Don ZALUCHI (continues) 

-- Somebody comes to them and says, 

"I have powders; if you put up 

three, four thousand dollar investment -- 

we can make fifty thousand distributing." 

So they can't resist. 

I want to control it 

as a business, 

to keep it respectable --

(then, as he slams his hand 

on the table -- a most insincere and

unconvicing pantomine that fails to pesuade

anybody of this dumb thug's moral outrage.) 

I don't want it near schools -- 

I don't want it sold 

to children! That's an infamia. 

( He mispronounces ‘infamia’. )

In my city, we would keep the traffic 

in the dark people -- the coloured. 

They're animals anyway, 

so let them lose their souls...