Exterior, the gate of the Wasp Zoo.
Sentry At The Gate Of The Wasp Zoo : Halt! Who goes there?
Voice Offstage : I am Perkins, Bringer Of Mothballs.
Sentry At The Gate Of The Wasp Zoo : You may pass.
Enter Perkins, Bringer Of Mothballs. He is dressed in cardboard boxes save for his hat, which is made of birds.
Perkins, Bringer Of Mothballs : Have you heard the news from Chappaquiddick?
Sentry At The Gate Of The Wasp Zoo : Yes. Poor Mary Jo Kopechne.
Perkins, Bringer Of Mothballs : This is a very bijou wasp zoo.
Sentry At The Gate Of The Wasp Zoo : It is. But now I have no further words, and nor do you, for there is a fatal flaw in this little drama, viz. its incoherence. Now we must simply stand here on stage, silently, for several hours, until such time as your hat-birds fly, fly away.
Perkins, Bringer Of Mothballs : But they are not living birds. They are stone dead and taxidermised.
Sentry At The Gate Of The Wasp Zoo : Did you not hear what I said? Hush ye! Hush ye!
Several hours pass, until the audience bursts into thunderous applause.