Lovewords

JASON

I love you.

I know those are some big words and many of you will probably leave here after the show and say,

"What a strange, funny, interesting, boring, thought provoking little show. What about when he said 'I love you'? Remember that? That was weird.

"Because those are not words to be played with, thrown around, bandied about, shuffled into and through the conversation we're having -- you and me -- the give and take -- the exchange of truths and ideas. Those words are not to be taken or given lightly. They are important words, they mean something and some people spend years and years and years -- years and months and weeks and days and hours and minutes and seconds just waiting to hear them. And some people never get to hear them.

"So how dare you...how dare you take those words -- steal them -- snatch them from their rightful honest, earnest, truthful, heartfelt, serious, real place and just stick them in a play like that? Just take them in vain and put them where they don't belong: on a stage, a den of pretense, a breeding ground for the artificial, the fake, the not-quite-true, the false, even? How dare you say those beautiful, wonderful, dangerous, horrible, painful, awful, delicious, heavenly words...?"

And you'd be right, of course. I'm sorry. How could I -- how could I be so un...insensitive? I'm sorry, really. Those are not my words, I don't, I can't...I made a mistake. Those are not my words. I don't. I don't. I don't love you.

See, now, that's not entirely true either.