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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Gimmi Cake
Language: English 
GIMMI CAKE GIMMICAKE    
WHEN I'M HUN GRY
GIMMY CAKE
GIMMI CAKE
GIMMI CAKE
(The spell wears off and the ASSASSIN grabs a cupcake and begins 
to cut it into smaller and smaller pieces. Heavy kawaii metal, manic, violent.)  
yell like a child
WHEN I'M SAD 
STUFF ME FAKE
I AM EMPTY
I AM HUNGRY
FILL THE VOID
GIMMY CAKE   
 GIMMY CAKE
(She contemplates taking a bite, but does not eat.) 
EAT, DO NOT EAT
EAT, DO NOT EAT.     
 IT'S NEVER JUST ONE BITE,   
 IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE, 
 I MUST EAT MORE. 
MORE
EAT DO NOT EAT 
I MUST EAT MORE
I CANNOT EAT     
I MUST EAT MORE
HUNGER, DEVOUR ME
SHAME SHAME SHAME  
STUFF TILL YOU TASTE NO MORE
loud whisper
GUILT GUILT SHAME SHAME
PURGE TILL YOU FEEL NO MORE    
I AM A GARBAGE BIN
DELETE ALL
(TARO watches painfully, reminded of her own past scavenging 
and stealing food on the streets as an orphan. 
She runs over to the ASSASSIN and snatches the knife away.)

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Alice Ho (b. 1960), "Gimmi Cake", 2022 [ voice and piano ]
        Publisher: Canadian Music Centre [external link]  [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2026-10-28
Line count: 37
Word count: 167

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