Sing Sing

For aught that I could ever read,

could ever hear by tale or history,

the course of true love never did run smooth.

But either it was different in blood or else misgraffed

in respect of years,

or else it stood upon the choice of friends,

or if there were a sympathy in choice,

war, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,

making it momentany as a sound,

swift as a shadow, short as any dream,

brief as the lightning in the collied night,

that, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth.

And, ere a man has power to say, "Behold!"

The jaws of darkness do devour it up.

So quick bright things come to confusion.

Yo, we got you, we got you.

Mike Mike, you killed it tonight, man.

Don't I do it every time though?

Yeah, that's true.

But you could have definitely used that same energy

for opening night that you had tonight.

I'm gonna let that one go.

Yeah, I know, I know.

You good?

Yeah.

Okay, I'm gonna take off.

All right.

You gonna bust outta here? All right.

B block, step forward.

Hey, fuck you, CO.

Who the fuck said that?

Who the fuck said that?

What the fuck you doin', man?

No fucking cigarettes.

Um, excuse me.

You know, I've been,

trying to catch you in the yard, man.

It's been kind of hard, you know?

And basically I wanted to know,

would you mind signing, you know this book, man?

Oh, man.

You from, wait, you from Rikers?

Yeah. Yeah, man. I did two years on the Island, man.

Very popular there.

Yeah, yeah.

It did really good there, man.

- Got a pen? - Oh yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, well, you got it right there?

Ever ready, yeah, man.

I really appreciate this, man.

That's me. G.

Yeah.

Put a little star right there for you.

Yeah, man. Ooh wee!

I'm still flying high, you feel me?

Still flying high.

That monologue had everybody paying attention.

- What monologue, mine? - Divine G, Divine G.

Coldest shit he's done, right?

No, I was all right, I was all right.

But we still got more work to do I think, all right?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

What do you mean "No, no, no, no, no, no, no"?

Let's bask in it for a minute.

Those transitions were rough though, hold on.

Parate con easy.

Let's just enjoy it for a minute.

- I still just remember... - Remember the moment.

...the feeling being on the stage.

It does feel good.

You always gotta be onto the next.

All right. Okay, I hear you.

All right, so why don't we just go over the wait list?

- All right. See who could- - We can do that,

- we could do that. - Right?

See who can move up. All right?

- Easy, man. - All right, cool. Here we go.

- Just gotta make things better. - Who we got?

We got, uh, Curtis Cross.

- Curtis Cross. - Who's that?

I don't think so. What?

I'm with you.

Short answer, hell no.

What's the long answer?

The long answer is he one of them dudes,

he always primping and propping, you know,

he's gonna step in here, sit right there,

try and take over every time we put him in anything.

Put him in a hot seat from the beginning.

He only wants to-

Yeah, but he don't think it's a hot seat.

He only wants to sit next to the females.

He makes women feel uncomfortable.

Got you. All right. Okay.

How about, all right, how about this?

We have, uh, now this is his second time.

Who?

Is, uh, Divine Eye.

Divine Eye. - Mm-mm.

Eye...? From Mount Vernon?

I don't think he's ready.

The brother's smart. You gotta admit it though.

He teaches history class at the NAACP.

I'm sure there's a lot of

smart drug dealers in the yard.

Maybe he, what he may need from us

is to be able to put that

- energy into this program. - Divine G.

Divine G, you gonna vouch for him?

I'll vouch for the interview.

Just for the interview?

Yeah, for the interview.

- And the rest is on him. - Him getting in, it's up to us.

You know what? Yeah, we'll give it to you.

Always trying to save somebody.

Mike Mike, you go check him out with me. See what's up.

- You and me? - Yeah.

Let's check him out.

What's up? Make sure done get that paper to me, right?

Oh, shit yo.

I gotta go do something real quick.

Damn.

The fuck's he gotta do?

What's up, birdie?

Hey, man.

That little jump shot you did...

-Yeah? You saw that? - It was nice, yeah.

You got my shit?

- Oh yeah. Um, yeah. - Yeah, the shit I gave you.

The shit I gave you, you got it?

- I got it. - Yeah. Get it.

Just a young dude.

Here we go.

Always a young white boy.

You really wanna watch this?

Word, well what is this though?

What?

What? What you mean what? What the fuck is this?

This ain't fucking what I gave you. Do you know...

- This is... - That, that has not come...

- This is fucking aspirin. - ...out of my pocket.

This is not what the... You know what I gave you?

- No. - Not fucking aspirin.

Worth $500.

This is $500,

- did you know that, brother? - No, no, no.

I'm gonna be needing it. I don't give a fuck

what was in your pocket.

I don't care where you had it or who you know, or none...

I don't know who's fucking you,

but you not gonna fuck me

- out of 500. - I'm not trying to fuck you...

I'm gonna be needing all of that.

- You heard what I said? -Look, I, I, I...

I don't care what the fuck you's talking about right now.

This what's going on, $500.

Don't care how you get it.

Don't give a fuck what you got to do to get it.

Get my fucking bread to me, you heard what I said?

I can't get you $500.

- You're going to get me $500. -I can't get you $500.

You're gonna do whatever the fuck you got to do.

I don't give a fuck what you got to do.

You're gonna do that shit to get my fucking bread.

You heard what I said?

Or I'm gonna tear your fucking face off in here.

Now here, take this bullshit and get the fuck out my face.

Go get my money.

Peace, King. Peace. What's happening?

Peace, brother. Hey.

That was really fucked up.

Yeah well, shit happens, man, you know.

Dude gonna get schooled by

somebody somewhere, so, you know,

I'm just charging for the lessons, homie.

Expensive lesson.

Listen, you signed up for the RTA program.

Yeah. Yeah.

And we have a few spots open.

Yeah, just like one or two and that's it.

And we wanted to know

if you wanted to put those acting skills

that we just saw down there to some good use?

- What, that? - Yeah.

Y'all thought that was acting?

Yeah, man.

You ain't seen nothing yet.

All right.

So why'd you sign up for the program?

Yeah, you know, you got some pretty volunteers

I saw up on that stage.

Chicks, y'all got up in here.

Yeah, man. It's not really like that.

They're our colleagues.

Do I need a reason? Do I really need a reason?

-Yeah. - Well, we just...

I'm just asking you to be honest.

- Honest, huh? - Yeah.

All right.

Well, one day I came across a book, man,