Frank Romer Pierson, 12 de maio de 1925 – 23 de julho de 2012

SONNY

Mom.  Mom.  There are some things a

mother shouldn’t say in front of

her son.

VI

If she comes down here, so help me

I’m gonna mash her brains in.

Everything in your life was sunlight

and roses until you met her.

Since then, forget it.

SONNY

She doesn’t have anything to do with it!

You understand that? Mother?  This is me!

VI

I know you wouldn’t need Leon if

Heidi was treating you right.  The

thing I don’t understand is why you

come out and sleep with Heidi

anyway?  You got two kids on

welfare now.  What’re you goin’ to

bed with her, you don’t have enough

with one wife and two kids on

welfare, you want a wife and three kids on welfare?

SONNY

(this is old stuff)

Not now, Mom, please.

VI

What’ll you do?  Come out.

SONNY

(patiently – I told you

a hundred times)

I can’t, Mom.  If I come out Sal

will kill them.

VI

Oh.

(she thinks for a moment)

Run.

SONNY

What the hell for? Twenty-five

years in the pen?

VI

Maybe…

SONNY

Maybe!  Aw Christ, what dreams you

 live on!  Maybe what?

She stares at him.He talks slowly and carefully to her.

SONNY

I’m a fuckup and an outcast.  There

isn’t one single person in my life

I haven’t hurt through my love.

You understand that?  I’m the most

dangerous person in the world,

because if I love you, watch out,

you’re gonna get fucked, fucked

over and fucked out!

(Roteiro de Um Dia de Cão/Dog Day Afternoon, 1975)