BY TOM SOMACH

The Korean lunatic who gunned down dozens of people at Virginia Tech last week once wrote a violent play about video poker.

Seung-Hui Cho, who was an English major at the Blacksburg, Va. university, shot and killed 30 students and two professors, and wounded dozens of others, before killing himself in what was the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.

Cho, 23, took a class in play writing last semester, and some of his work has now found its way into various media.

One of the plays Cho wrote for the class was titled “Mr. Brownstone” and takes place in a casino.

According to a summary of the play’s plot that Cho wrote at the beginning of the script, the plot of the play involves teenagers using “fake ID to play poker machines at a casino.”

Further summarizing the plot before getting into the dialogue, Cho wrote: “They agree after a long day at school, they want to be left alone, safe from that ‘freakin’ teacher’ Mr Brownstone, who nags, threatens and stalks them.

“They sing a Guns ‘N Roses song called ‘Mr. Brownstone,’ which is about heroin addiction, likening their Mr Brownstone to being worse than heroin. Suddenly, John wins the big $5 million jackpot on a poker machine. The kids celebrate, but when a casino official comes over with the check, Mr. Brownstone appears.

“He says he was playing the machine and the kids pushed him out of the way. The official checks their ID, kicks them out of the casino and gives the $5 million to Brownstone. As they are dragged out, the kids scream: ‘You won’t get away with this, Brownstone, you (expletive)’.”

After summarizing the plot of his play, Cho scripted the dialogue, including this exchange among three teens:

“Joe: That old fart won’t leave us alone

Jane: He has to make our lives miserable

John: I’d like to kill him.

Jane: I’ll be damn if he doesn’t die. I wish that old fart would have a heart attack and drop dead like old people are supposed to.

John: Make room for the new generation, you old fart!”

(E-mail Tom Somach at tomsomach@yahoo.com.)