I was on my way to St. Martin's Dale and I was hungry as a bear. Now on my way to St. Martin's Dale I spies me this rabbit, and this rabbit be a jumpin' and a wigglin' and a scratchin' out great big balls of fur, so I says, "Hey, Rabbit, why you be a jumpin' and a wigglin' and a scratchin' out great big balls of fur?" And Rabbit, he don't answer me with nothing but a scream and then he jump him up in the air and fall him down dead like a stone.

Now, not wantin' his dyin' to go to waste and me being hungry like a man chained in iron, I eats me that rabbit.

Now, when I gets my belly full I gets me tired so I lays me down and I has me a nap. And while I'm a has'n me that nap I has me a dream. I dreams me that rabbit, he be deep down in my gut and old rabbit, he don't like none of it. He starts to agitate and turn him in circles, makin' a hell of a commotion. Just as I thinks in my head, "What you do, rabbit?" I hear my own self same voice go rumblin' through my gut, "WHAT YOU DO, RABBIT???" and he starts to shakin' like he got him a palsy. "You're in me now," says I, "And I don't like my food this active!" Well, Rabbit, he jump him up in the air and fall him down dead all over again, only this time, he fall him down just a pile of rabbit bones. I wakes me up, then, only I ain't me. I'm a rabbit. Just like that, I wakes me up and I'm a rabbit, only I know I'm a man, so I starts to jumpin' and a wigglin' and a scratchin' out great big balls of fur to try and get my man self out of my rabbit self. Then I hears a big ol man voice behind me say "What you do rabbit?"

Well, I jumps me up in the air and falls me down dead, and the next thing I know I'm in a big old dark wet place, and I thinks to myself, "I been magiked, and now I been et." I tries to get out only I just dies me all over again, and now I'm here, in front of all you other dead rabbits and each one of is thinking the exact same thing . . . it just don't pay to eat what dies for you.

"Rabbit" debuted Fall '86, performed by Todd Ristau.

[Possibly also performed at the Duck's Breath/No Shame Show on March 6 & 7, 1987.]

One of six pieces performed at Department Lab on September 4, 1987.

Performed at Talk Art Cabaret on February 26, 1992

Performed at Best of the Best of No Shame on October 11, 1996.

Performed at No Shame / Charlottesville on May 4, 2001 and May 10, 2002.