ANGEL:Who died?
BENNY:Our Akita
They make fun yet I'm the one
Attempting to do some good
Or do you really want a neighborhood
Where people piss on your stoop every night?
Bohemia, Bohemia's
A fallacy in your head
This is Calcutta
Bohemia is dead
MARK
Dearly beloved we gather here to say our goodbyes
Here she lies
No one knew her worth
The late great daughter of mother earth
On this night when we celebrate the birth
In that little town of Bethlehem
We raise our glass- you bet your ass to-
La vie Boheme
ALL
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
MARK
To days of inspiration
Playing hookie, making something out of nothing
The need to express
To communicate,
To going against the grain,
Going insane
Going mad

To loving tension, no pension
To more than one dimension,
To starving for attention,
Hating convention, hating pretension
Not to mention of course,
Hating dear old mom and dad

To riding your bike,
Midday past the three- piece suits
To fruits to no absolutes
To Absolute- to choice
To the Village Voice
To any passing fad
To being an us-for once-, instead of a them -

ALL
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
MAUREEN
Hey Mister- she's my sister

RESTAURANT MAN
So that's five miso soup, four seaweed salad
Three soy burger dinner, two tofu dog platter
And one pasta with meatless balls

A BOY:Ugh
COLLINS:It tastes the same
MIMI:If you close your eyes

RESTAURANT MAN
And thirteen orders of fries
Is that it here?
ALL:Wine and beer!

MIMI & ANGEL
To hand-crafted beers made in local breweries
To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese
To leather, to dildos, to curry vindaloo
To huevos rancheros and Maya Angelou

MAUREEN & COLLINS
Emotion, devotion, to causing a commotion
Creation, vacation
MARK:Mucho masturbation
MAUREEN & COLLINS
Compassion, to fashion, to passion when it's new
COLLINS//To Sontag
ANGEL//Sondheim
FOUR PEOPLE:To anything taboo
COLLINS & ROGER
Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunningham and Cage
COLLINS:Lenny Bruce
ROGER:Langston Hughes
MAUREEN:To the stage
PERSON #1:To Uta
PERSON #2:To Buddha
PERSON #3:Pablo Neruda, too

MARK & MIMI
Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow
To blow off Auntie Em

ALL
La vie Boheme

MR. GREY
Sisters?

MAUREEN
We're close

ANGEL, COLLINS, MAUREEN, MARK, MR. GREY
Brothers!

MARK, ANGEL, MIMI & THREE OTHERS
Bisexuals, trisexuals, homo sapiens,
Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, Pee Wee Herman
German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein
Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa
Carmina Burana
To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstasy
ALL
Vaclav Havel - The Sex Pistols, 8BC,
To no shame - never playing the Fame Game

COLLINS
To marijuana
ALL
To sodomy,
It's between God and me
To S & M
BENNY:Waiter...Waiter...
ALL:La vie Boheme (BENNY:Waiter)
COLLINS
In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromtu salon
will commence immediately following dinner
Maureen Johnson, just back from her spectacular one-night engagement
at the eleventh street lot,
will sing Native American tribal chants backwards through her vocoder,
while accompanying herself on the electric cello-
which she aint never studied.
ROGER
And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary
about his inability
to hold an erection on high holy days.
MARK
And Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap,
will perform her famous lawn chair-handcuff dance
to the sounds of iced tea being stirred...
And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song
(Roger picks up a guiter and plays)
MARK
That doesn't remind us of 'Musetta's Waltz'
COLLINS
Angel Dumott Schunard
will model the latest fall fashions from Paris
while accompanying herself on the 10-gallon plastic pickle tub.
ANGEL
And Collins will recount his exploits as an Anarchist-
Including the tale of his successful reprogramming
of the MIT virtual reality equipment to self-
destruct as it broadcasts the words:
ALL
"Actual reality -- Act Up -- Fight AIDS"
MIMI
Excuse me did I do something wrong?
I get invited then ignored all night long
ROGER
I've been trying I'm not lying
No one's perfect I've got baggage
MIMI
Life's too short, babe, time is flying
I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine
ROGER
I should tell, you-
MIMI
I've got baggage too
ROGER
I should tell you
BOTH
Baggage - (ALL:wine And beer!)
MIMI
AZT break
ROGER
You?
MIMI
Me , You?
ROGER
Mimi