BYRON and EVAN are lying in bed. Evan is disturbed, Byron dreamy.

BYRON
But I didn’t stop talking. I said: ” I would take birds to the mountain top, well, not birds, their effigies. I would never touch the actual material. In the umber night, (GAVIN walks in, takes off jacket, lays at end of the bed), I walked steadily up the red rocks into a brightly lit paper house white like a lantern. There I called Briar my bird, my mate. He would bring his beak close to mine. I could see his two golden eyes. They would shift forward so that we could see into one another. That was our meeting place…and then he would slip into me. I could feel his tiny heart beating hard against my breast like a seed capable of lifting me off and suddenly I would be gone… (GAVIN gets up and brushes his teeth) and where I went… (pause)….human shit would walk on all fours and copulate with dismembered earthworms…

EVAN
I think I tuned you out at that point.