Mr Pinocchio (Mr Pine-Nut), you should have stay’d in the Whale’s belly – it was good there…
Genesis: ‘There were giants in those days’ …and walking, talking, laughing puppets, too.
A Big Fish?  A fishy-tale?  One great mammoth Moby-Dick of a Monster – Beautiful, like Jonah’s.
I like you all – have a Story!  I had friends – who like me.
I was never a donkey – I act’d it! ‘Bottom’s Dream’ …and my nose never grew – when I lied.
They took my money!  My feet are toast!  They hang’d me from a pine-nut tree!
They took my Dreams!  That sweet, little… Dead Girl.  

Master Cherry, you drunken lumberjack! – play those chops on your naughty piece of schtick!
Gonna carve me a knotty little puppet – wish-upon-a-star to chisel me a lovely wee Boy – ha!
Bravo! Pudding-head!  Slap-top! Baboon! Jackass!  Your plane-ride tickled me…
Wood does not laugh!  You froze like gargoyle! – fell down! – teach the alphabet to the ants!
That flaming stop-light nose – zap’d to lightning blue! …Run, sticky-boy! Run, knot-knees! Bolt-neck blues!
Respect.  We grow old and we demand Respect – deserved, or not.  (kick)
Magic puppets don’t get Respect – Dreamers don’t get Respect.  Think about it.  

Police!  (Geppetto arrested)  - always the fiery temperament – kill him one day.
(Pinocchio alone – ‘freedom’ – sigh of satisfaction)  Crk-crk-crk… I am The Talking Cricket.  
I am 100 years old!  Woe to good-for-nothings!  Misery comes to vagabonds! 
(smash) ‘Bond’ …Vaga-Bond.  I am hungry… (search – yawn)  Why does that happen?  (dream)
Wake up, kindling… you’ve burnt your feet off!  (remake)  Have some pears…  Peel them!  (mime)
I always had a vivid imagination – Inspiration…  Beware!  This beckons Poverty!  Sell it!
You can save that one and only last chance Egg – break it – and a chicky-baby… runs away!  

The Puppet Theatre!  They all knew me!  I belong here – I am an Artiste!  This is Me!
Noise!  No Discipline!  Ego!  I will ignite you in my cook fire – sacrifice your impudence!
Yes!  Take me!  Do not harm Harlecchino!  I blaze!  I sparkle!  I radiate!  I am… Passion!
Bravo!  (sneeze)  Here: take 5 gold coins!  Melt! Waxwork Bullyboy!  Better than raves – Cash for Art!
Cat & Fox Investments Ltd.  What Star isn’t exploit’d?  We don’t understand Money – who uses whom?
I put my money where my mouth is…  (mime)  …bit off a paw… now, who’s the Shark?
They took a bath,  but unlike me, they didn’t lose… Interest! -- Faith! …in  the Field of Miracles.

The pretty wee girl… with blue hair… whitest skin… watching me from the window… Dead.
These wonders don’t happen to Normal People!  (Cricket)  Take your medicine!  (kill)  Sugar?
OK… Cat & Fox hang’d me from a tree… I want’d a Life of Adventure! …That was being rob’d from me!
Ghost Girl said, “if something’s lost in the wood, it will always be found.”  She loved me… a liar.
‘My heart was beating like a mantelpiece clock when it is really going well.’  The wind blew me…
I was hanging there… a swinger clattering like a wedding bell… the spasms of death took my breath away.
The Phantom Child spoke to me without moving her lips…died again for missing me…the Dead still dream.  

So, Judge Gorilla jail’d me for being Unlucky.  (Death for Actors)  Did Time.  Shaggy Watch-dog tale…
‘I forgot the Rules of Society, took my hands out of my pockets and gave my head a good scratch.’
Show-biz is full of jackass’s, so I pretend’d to become one, too… but it didn’t really take…‘til I became Real.
I was an Original!  Green-Lizard Men envy!  …and my nose never really did grow when I lied… I was good!
That Fat Blue Fairy was not my Little Angel, but Mama Vampira!  “Be Good and I’ll make you Ordinary!” 
Why did I do it?  Collodi!  Everybody!  Stop chasing me!  I’ll be… Good.  (cry)  (Boy)  

Cricket: it’s best.  Crow: deathcry means Recovery.  Owl: deathcry = Regret.  Bring in the Black Rabbits!
Of course, we all long for Approval, Papa!  What’s wrong with the Circus?  It’s wonderful, magic… like me!
Maybe I was Frankenstein.  Maybe I am now.  I miss that Tempest-sea… The Whale… my vehicle…
O!  I could be Ahab!  I tried being a man-actor… Critics said I was awkward… wooden…
Disney!  Don’t knock it – I made a lot off that – still, I have no pears… peers… friends…
but… it’s All a Circus out there – just look!  Perform!  Ha! – ha.  I… like you all… have a Story.
Pinocchio!  I didn’t hear you cry out!  …it was too dark in here to hear me… probably.