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The monologue by Agnes reveals her troubled perception of life, death, and divine influence, as she grapples with the concepts of good and bad babies, suffering, and her own body image. She believes that her mother's spirit and a mysterious Lady communicate with her, leading her to feel a sense of punishment for her physical appearance. Agnes expresses a deep desire to be accepted by God, equating suffering with beauty and fearing her own weight will prevent her from entering Heaven.

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Agnes

The monologue by Agnes reveals her troubled perception of life, death, and divine influence, as she grapples with the concepts of good and bad babies, suffering, and her own body image. She believes that her mother's spirit and a mysterious Lady communicate with her, leading her to feel a sense of punishment for her physical appearance. Agnes expresses a deep desire to be accepted by God, equating suffering with beauty and fearing her own weight will prevent her from entering Heaven.

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AGNES OF GOD

by John Pielmeier

AGNES

Where do babies come from? Well, I think they come from when an angel lights on their mother's chest
and whispers into her ear.

That makes good babies start to grow. Bad babies come when a fallen angels squeezes in down there. I
don't know where good

babies come out. (Silence) And you can't tell the difference except that bad babies cry a lot and make
their fathers go away and their

mothers get very ill and die sometimes. Mummy wasn't very happy when she died and I think she went
to hell because every time I see

her she looks like she just stepped out of a hot shower. And I'm never sure if it's her or the Lady who tells
me things. They fight over me

all the time. The Lady I saw when I was ten. I was lying on the grass looking at the sun and the sun
became a cloud and the cloud

became the Lady, and she told me she would talk to me and then her feet began to bleed and I saw
there were holes in her hands and in

her side and I tried to catch the blood as it fell from the sky but I couldn't see any more because my eyes
hurt because there were big

black spots in from of them. And she tells me things like--right now she's crying, "Marie, Marie!" but I
don't know what she means. And

she uses me to sing. It's as if she's throwing a big hook under my ribs and tries to pull me up but I can't
move because Mummy is holding

my feet and all I can do is sing in her voice, it's the Lady's voice, God loves you! (silence) God loves you.
(silence) I don't eat because I

have been commanded by God. I'm getting fat, there's too much flesh on me. I have to be attractive to
God. He hates fat people. It's a sin

to be fat. Look at all the statues. They're thin. That's because they're suffering. Suffering is beautiful. I
want to be beautiful. Christ said it

in the Bible. He said, "Suffer the little children, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." I want to suffer like
a little child. I am a little child,
but my body keeps getting bigger. I don't want it to get bigger because then I won't be able to fit in. I
won't be able to squeeze into

Heaven. I'm too fat! Look at this--I'm a blimp! God blew up the Hindendburg. He'll blow up me. That's
what Mummy said. But if I stay little,

it won't happen. She says God presents us to our mothers in bundles of eight pounds six ounces. I have
to be eight pounds again. I'm

being punished. I don't know why. (she holds out her hand, bleeding) It started this morning, and I can't
get it to stop. Why me? Why me?

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