¡¶Great Days¡·


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    Donald Bartories, Great Days, is per notable for ted dialogues, quot;t; quot;t; quot;t; quot;Morning,quot; quot;On teps of tory,quot; quot;t; and quot;Great Days,quot;  of less, possibility-ed colloquies, stripped of everytional terrain , profane, and comic, t, testing ties of form and extending our engagement he world.

    In otories Bartragic, ambiguous relations¨¦s and Montezuma, uncovers units of ttan, offers a country-music version of Mozarts Abduction from tting contest bet on a ion.

    As Pevick e in tion, Donald Bartories quot;stand as toucones for narrative art of t t; Great Days is an important addition to an already impressive body of work.

 The Crisis

    -- On tion page of t;to Clementine.quot; A fine sentiment, miscellaneous organ music next, and, turning several pages, massed orange flags at t be easy, but neit be ed song of tance.

    -- Yes, success is everytant as ical way.

    --  ured t our best zoo, and a cemetery. tered tamer animals and are playing ly.

    -- t better, and in my opinion will.

    -- tration procedures are scrupulous -- accurate and fair.

    -- to it tars and clapping along. Alt frequently gets people in the mood.

    -- t, not subtle. Dissolution, leacing, cracking and melting of fireproof doors, condemnation, er damage, slide presentations, clamps and buckles.

    -- And skepticism, altely necessary, leads to not very much.

    -- ten all ts . t vast organ, ts , beats now on a bald plain.

    -- It depends on  to do. Sometimes people dont kno kno.

    -- Clementine is t to be one of t rebel leaders of tury.  has four cockades.

    -- I loved  stopped.

    -- Rebel t-ss, camouflaged as ordinary t-ss by an intense weness no eye can pierce, are worn everywhere.

    -- I dont knoopped, it just stopped. ts imes. Is someth me?

    -- Closely supervised voting in tons produced results clearly favorable to neition, but rat of generalized approbation wed by anyone w.

    -- A greater concentration on one person then, zip.

    -- tograpinted glasses, blond locks bloo the world press, in billboard size.

    -- roliner, I begin quietly t o ter planning, more careful management, a more equal distribution of income, education. Or something new.

    -- takes. No attempt o seize Broadcasting al error. t subverted, discontented junior officers of t soug and offered promotions, or money. . .

    -- Yes, an afternoon on t t in ting at us to get out of t t us just stand t apparently ts not done. So  to ted some clubs and bags, and put t got us by for a tractive sportsicipants. t  ill under some mysterious system of rules  understand, al time, it seemed, yelled at and bumping into people. So finally o  and left t  to spoil anybodys fun, so ook to to returning to t, ry ts and soccer fields, of hings.

    -- Blocking forces  provided to isolate t created to dras. ts  invested nor y services neutralized. Important civilians  cultivated and ed. Pograpributed but t;leadersquot; ors, selected for their immense foreheads and chins and blond, flowing locks.

    -- Yes, tty cute tricks. I o laugimes, iers are true, mortar pits ring tor banks but t be seen as friendly, ures toification of the crisis.

    -- t goal of terprises is to avoid dominance; leaders to be a cer disorder. Clementine  o ts of closure.

    -- ell, maybe so.  an ordinary  not transfigured.

    -- tion eered clear of taking sides, sits  of tristan und Isolde.

    -- e feel only 25 percent of o recent findings. I kno quot;oug; is a loaded ext.

    -- Are t bells of t of t of to be ed, how reconciled?

    -- t do anytter s a fact. I hey can.

    -- t a success; t hisses.

    -- t. But sometimes you cant find it, even when you know how.

    -- Our pride in , raturned us once again toions t deserve serious attention.

    -- Is somet complaining, just asking. e all s t disturbs. Maybe 25 percent is , but most people dont need y very often. Of course, I admit t . Cattle too dream of deat. I dont mean t as an excuse. I did love rategy is to be c being optimistic; Ill go along . Maybe ion Day, o tizens assumes a calm, even jokey tone. to take off ts. Fetcccand c out not too close to ting mac-poliss. Bold sergeants arrive and depart in patrol cars, or das making arrangements, and only thesmen are lonely.

    -- As a magician y of doves, finding some, losing otco t actions.

    -- I dont quarrel  to do it. Its t.

    -- Self-criticism sessions icism ted.

    -- I decided t somet h me.

    -- to make promises. Promises are, per of tter.  of love, ts might have --

    -- Yes, success is everyt ac of middling t fortunately ones situation is alely quite tention to ots of existence.

    -- But even a poor rebellion s glorious moments. Let me list some of t up.  smeared  and tacked by red dogs, and Clem scared t  all of ticks  back at t at tore. tons made topped it by stamping , again and again and again.

    -- s back from tend to call s ry.

    -- Distant fingers from te.

    -- the rebel brigades are reading Leskovs hy Are Books Expensive in Kiev?

    -- t pasting noises of ters remind us of Oklaill the same.

 The Apology

    -- Sitting on t of my face in the window. hell never come back.

    -- Of course urn, open te he window.

    --  now.

    --  h head held high.

    -- I was unforgivable.

    -- I  argue otherwise.

    -- te, difficult to open. takes ts closed.

    -- Ive  gate. In er,  gloves, yanking, late at nigurning my o see w be behind me --

    -- t time t guy er you --

    -- the creep --

    -- ithe chain --

    -- Nahe cudgel.

    -- Yes to be carrying cudgels noiced t. Big knobby cudgels.

    -- Its a style, makes a statement, someto do heir pricks I imagine.

    -- Sitting on t of my face in t, face truncated under t do you call it, sill.

    -- But bat of tickle across your bare back --

    -- I was unforgivable.

    -- I dont disagree.

    -- hell never come back.

    -- Say youre sorry.

    -- Im not sorry.

    -- Genuine sorro do it, fake it.

    -- Im not sorry.

    -- ell scre. Its six of one and o me. I dont care.

    -- ?

    -- Forgive me I didnt mean t.

    -- ?

    -- I just meant you could t. A note ten on pale-blue notepaper, in an unsteady ;Dear illiam, it is one of test regrets of my poor life t --quot;

    -- Never.

    -- . Its possible. Your position, trongly suggests t t some energy unexpended. t tic norttract ill.

    -- ts kind of you. Kind.

    -- Your ed Frenc hair on your jeans.

    -- ait.  is it t makes you spring up so, my ?

    -- te.

    -- te. te opening.

    -- Is it he?

    -- It is not. It is someone.

    -- Let me look.

    -- anding there.

    -- I kno our windows.

    -- ?

    -- Guy I know. Melville Fis.

    -- s ?

    -- My devotion. Ive disabused imes, to little avail. If  ansanding outside and gazing up.

    -- .

    -- Yes . ts Andy.

    -- Powerful forehead on him.

    -- Yes it is impressive. Stuffed e.

    -- Good arms.

    -- Yes, quite good.

    -- Looks like  fly into a rage if crossed.

    -- antly.

    -- e could go out in treet and  on ions.

    -- Probably tle or no effect.

    -- Stick he spines of sea urchins.

    -- Doubt you could penetrate.

    -- But hes a friend of yours so you say.

    -- I got no friends babe, no friends, no friends.  doo t-cutting.

    -- Go take a poke.

    -- I dont  to be t you do it.

    -- A. Sitting  a o spend ime.

    -- Many he golden carp. Fibonacci numbers.

    -- Peraupe. t miged on tting on t dark eyes visible. My great dark eyes and, in moments of agitation, my great dark nose. Ogled by myriads of citizens bopping doed streets.

    -- he shoulders! And so on. Say youre sorry.

    -- I cannot. s next? Cant sit . Im nervous. Look on t side, maybe  a gun stuck in , a belly gun, I sa. I scraped tmeal out of t youll be glad to knot, tt. t . Spears in t. I can lend you a rock if you dont  urn. Stir up t on some music.  are you good for? ce? Massage?

    -- il you say it.

    -- Be damned if I imes.

    -- t ted face forever. You are dumb, if I may say so, dumb, dumb. Its easy. Its like saying tesy. tfulness. ttle ttle t are kind, courteous, or tful. to my  t to do as  take tely and tely t no occasion pass to slip the ribs of every human ear.

    -- ell. I see w you mean.

    -- Act.

    -- Andy irred himself.

    -- s he doing?

    -- Sitting. On a garbage can.

    -- I knew him long ago, and far away.

    -- Cincinnati.

    -- Yes. Engaged ture of gearss e a nice  t period, name of CALEDONIA. S. tax my memory as I may cannot be brougo consciousness, t stained. Soo evaporated. c. Fell in love ary. Polly. Sain in front of  incense. Quite exotic, for Melville Fisics, a ma t a great surge of something. Like I was having my nose pulled.

    -- So ts Andy.

    -- Yes. s t sucker doing now?

    --  eel comb, maybe aluminum.

    -- s to comb? s he doing now?

    -- Adjusting s. hes zipping.

    -- You are a t I cannot abide, cannot abide, even t y in social discourse? And t t;zippingquot; as you call it --

    -- You are censorious, madame.

    -- A mere scant so tion s.

    -- She cops?

    -- And say w?

    -- Someones sitting on our garbage can?

    -- Maybe ts not illegal?

    -- O it out in ing  it.

    -- Ohe cops?

    -- Open the window.

    -- Open the window?

    -- Yes open the window.

    -- Okay the windows open.

    -- illiam! illiam, wherever you are!

    -- Youre going to say youre sorry!

    -- illiam! Im sorry!

    -- Andys put everything away!

    -- illiam Im sorry I let my brot you up t in t crappy jury-rigged bosuns cter fires tack of Cmas cards han yours!

    -- Andy quails. ts good.

    -- illiam Im sorry you dont ski and Im sorry about your back and Im sorry I invented bop jogging igua! Im sorry my mind  t! Im sorry you slit open my bicycle tires looking for incriminating letters t you didnt find! Youll never find them!

    -- os terrific babe. Very terrific.

    -- illiam! Im sorry I looked at Sam but ! Im sorry I slept  t Pete! Im sorry I never played tar you gave me! illiam! Im sorry I married you and Ill never do it again!

    -- ow.

    -- as I sorry enough?

    -- ell Andys run away howling.

    -- as I sorry enough?

    -- terrific. Very terrific.

    -- Yes I feel mucter.

    -- Didnt I tell you?

    -- You told me.

    -- Are you okay?

    -- Yes Im fine. Just a little out of breath.

    -- ell. s next? Do a little onking maybe,  a few bars?

    -- e could. If you feel like it. as I sorry enough?

    -- No.

 The New Music

    --  did you do today?

    -- ent to tore and Xeroxed a box of Englis violation of t Act.

    -- You  --

    -- I had my nap.

    -- Lunc, t er lunc?,  Xeroxing, rig a  of a book --

    -- talked to elep o clean up some of this mess?

    -- If one does not listen to ts, goes ao steal Atatue from trojans, so t ted and lose t t  t remote time s hearers?

    -- Or  compares to time?

    -- One can only conjecture.

    -- Aalking to a girl, talking to ually but ter reet. ter ely someone youd like to take to bed and  too old. If s too young. S me quite seductively, very seductively, smoldering a bit, and I e e til I realized s practicing.

    -- Yes, I still think of myself as a young man.

    -- Yes.

    -- A slightly old young man.

    -- ts not unusual.

    -- A sligill advertising in trees and rivers for a mate.

    -- Yes.

    -- Being clean.

    -- Youre very clean.

    -- Cleaner t.

    -- Its not escaped me. Your cleanness.

    -- Some of t clean. People you meet.

    --  can you do?

    -- Set an example. Be clean.

    -- Dig it, dig it.

    -- I got t s degrees of sting.

    -- Dynamite.

    -- I got one of t slip over the hand.

    -- Numero uno.

    -- Pedicare. ts anothing.

    -- t you?

    -- No. I feel like Insufficient Funds.

    -- Feel like a busted-up car by tripped of value.

    -- Feel like I dont like this!

    -- Youre just a little dos , down.

    -- ell  bring us no ring of roses tering on t mot?

    -- Dunno baby. Maybe ?

    -- how could we lose? how could we? e!

    -- e anding tall. Ready to  maybe --

    -- I remember t automatically --

    -- Yes. Almost  effort --

    -- Rig it rig me move t for you. Just put t sucker down rig-high silver cup!

    -- Beautifully engraved, es.

    -- Beautifully engraved, es. t hen.

    -- ell. Is there help coming?

    -- I called there was no more help.

    -- Im taking you to Pool.

    -- Ive been there.

    -- Im taking you to Pool, city of new life.

    -- Maybe tomorroher day.

    -- Pool, the revivifier.

    -- O up for it.

    -- aste t so h.

    -- I got to do.

    -- t lonesome road. It ends in Pool.

    -- Got to ctle cotton, go by tore.

    -- Ever been to Pool?

    -- Yes Ive been there.

    -- Pool, city of new hope.

    -- Get my ocarina tuned, seton on my s.

    -- raveled mucraveled enough?

    -- Ive traveled a bit.

    -- Got to go a back, ts fundamental.

    -- turn is my joy. Satisfied by a he block.

    -- Pool. ate Police? t red rock te a ructure, dim and red.

    -- Do t?

    -- No one  ts new.

    -- Got to air my sleeping bag, scrub up my canteen.

    -- er? Made out of red rock. tragedies.

    -- Yea ts over by train station right?

    -- No its closer to t Lyceum. t Lyceum glo ty.

    -- I could certainly use some  now. chup.

    -- Pool. t it be one of toe strict. t let people have cars.

    -- Yes, I te, I o prepare a paper. But I couldnt tood tenciled ernity go to say. Finally I said I he group.

    -- tery, dates from 1720 or ts. es from 1720 or around in there.

    -- Ive seen it. Ricraordinarily ric to cry.

    -- And in ters, carved red p off by borders of yellow beryl.

    -- Ive seen it. Extraordinarily rich.

    -- So its settled, o Pool, ts and revels, maybe a sock errace ies --

    -- Not mucly kneel at t, knit for them --

    -- And ts. All still alive.

    -- Eacs grand laicks, t udying tterns of t broco be sprinkled. Sometimes t-groeacion. Frequently tograp ions. At dusk medals are a t. Jaime, t. Em.

    -- Meant to be one of tohe idea.

    -- Serenity. Peace. t galleries, framed. Or sometimes, put on pedestals. Not muc from tice else in Pool tual --

    -- Person.

    -- Yes.

    -- And tape of talking, rig to his or her --

    -- Frame or pedestal.

    -- Prerecorded.

    -- Naturally.

    -- Se faces talking.

    -- Killed a fe ts under t.

    -- Somet.

    -- atc cant be t Ive ed for, Ive ed too long. I find it intolerable, all tter. Yet in t mind doing a little grazing myself, it tle funny.

    -- Is treets of Pool, a fes.

    -- And on anot into gold.

    -- Pool projects positive images of itself t medium of film.

    -- Cinemas filled rious product.

    -- Real films. Sent everywhere.

    -- Film is t medium of tury -- y, giggling film.

    -- So even if one does not go te the meaning of Pool.

    -- Id just like to rest and laze around.

    -- Soundtracks in Burmese, Italian, tongues.

    -- One film is  least a thousand.

    -- t t ter.

    -- Good. Excellent.

    -- In t t morning roll call, tense and efficient. quot;Mattingly!quot; calls t. quot;Yo!quot; says Mattingly. quot;Morgan!quot; calls t. quot;Yo!quot; says Morgan.

    -- A fine bunc fine.

    -- In t ter, an eigization of Eckermanns Conversations he.

    --  does Goethe say?

    -- Goet;I ed my .quot;

    -- Goet?

    -- And is quoted in tion ion of Pool worldwide.

    -- Rich, very rich.

    -- And tes in neglected bags.

    -- People sig eaces. t , .

    -- Lots of accommodations in Pool, all of tels are empty.

    -- See if I s left under the G.I. Bill.

    -- Pool is neoo.

    -- I  t.

    -- I can get us a plane or a train, t all the fares.

    -- People sig one anotes.

    -- So you just  to stay ay here and be yourself?

    -- Drop by tore, pick up a pair of shoes.

    -- Blackberries, buttercups, and est music terrific, alt generally speaking care muc t eadiest attention.

    -- Momma didnt lo played in unately.

    -- Momma.

    -- Momma didnt lo played in here. Made me sad.

    -- Momma side.

    -- Momma side.

    -- Sitting t-lowing. In her old rocking chair.

    -- Lo-lo.

    -- Didnt low oboe.

    -- Didnt lofiddle. Vibes.

    -- Rock over your damn foot and bust it, you didnt pop to w-lowing.

    -- Righe grease.

    -- true.

    -- You ed a little grease, like to buy a damn comic book or someto go to Momma.

    -- Sometimes yes, sometimes no. her variously colored moods.

    -- Mauve. arm gold. Citizens blue.

    -- Mauve mood t got  time.

    -- Concealed weapons. ell, w can you do?

    -- Carried a .357 daytimes and a .22 for evenings. ell, w can you do?

    -- Momma didnt let nobody work her over, nobody.

    -- S didnt give a  care.

    -- I t ss.

    -- S give pig s.

    -- You could even cry, s come.

    -- I tried t, I remember. Cried and cried. Didnt do a damn bit of good.

    -- Lost as series and t of love.

    -- Cried my little eyes out. t was sopping.

    -- Momma  to be swayed. Unswayable.

    -- Staring into tat.

    -- S on s. And Daddy, of course.

    -- Lets not do Daddy today.

    -- Yes, I remember Momma, jerking tem about ric diktats.

    -- Could C ion o t was one shed drop on you.

    -- then shed grade your paper.

    -- I got a C, once.

    -- She sun porch.

    -- Not one to , Momma.

    -- Got pretty damned tired of t old ty damned tired of t old atics  beating on pots and pans, trash-can lids --

    -- trying for a ticket to teries.

    -- You ed a little grease, like to go to to say, Momma can I tle grease to go to thel?

    -- Sen underly generous.

    -- Give you eig en.

    -- S.

    -- Out for a long iced in t fields to t of me and to t of me tems of interest: in to t of me, couple copulating in tan Studebaker as I remember, a toned pograpaken from tormers capable of flying  knos difficult or not --

    -- And in to your left?

    -- Momma. Rocking.

    -- S way. In a mauve mood.

    -- I tipped my . S return ting.

    -- S;ters anguisality.quot;

    -- Said my discourse   repeatedly.

    -- I asked myself: Do I give a bag of beans?

    -- t fell into the back yard?

    -- th lawn.

    -- ted to give it a Frito?

    -- Yeah?

    -- t it migc fly you understand. It  fly. So I  into to get it a Frito. So I rying to get it to eat to. I o.

    -- She saw you and whipped you.

    -- She did.

    -- S quot;touc s t; number.

    -- She did.

    -- the bird away.

    -- Into tter.

    -- Anticipating no doubt ter by ties.

    -- Momma. Youd ask ;Fine.quot; Like a little kid.

    -- ts ;Fine.quot;

    -- ts all you can get out of em. quot;Finequot;

    -- Boy or girl, dont make a pennys ;Fine.quot;

    -- Fending you off. Similarly, Momma.

    -- Momma loe.

    -- Yes. Se.

    -- I remember t. Banging a our lutes.

    -- Momma sitting trange intoxicants.

    -- Lime Rickeys.

    -- Orange Blossoms.

    -- Rob Roys.

    -- Cuba Libres.

    -- Brandy Alexanders and Bronxes.  stuff?

    -- An iron gut. And divinity, of course.

    -- ell. ant to clean up some of this mess?

    -- Some monster -covered claeflon-covered claer,  e e, tain criticisms, tor of Arcypes t quite cut it, t I stacking, attacking, attacking --

    -- A a fine fello.

    -- But on ter says, I feel fine. t corn flake back. I say, ?  corn flake back. I say, You gave me t corn flake its my corn flake.  corn flake back or Ill clao t man you gave it to me I already ate it. ter it first? I say, Cmon man be reasonable, you dont butter a corn flake --

    --  end?

    -- It doesnt end.

    -- Is there help coming?

    -- I called t number and teneth.

    -- here is succor?

    -- In the new music.

    -- Yes, it isnt often you s strengthening.

    -- to make up for tly to ts of lig arenas --

    -- Momma  .

    -- As  lorice.

    -- I remember. You still see her?

    -- Once in a way. Saw urday. I  was odd.

    --  feel?

    -- Odd. onderful.

    -- the body knows.

    -- the body is perspicacious.

    -- t dumb.

    -- ords cant say he body knows.

    -- Sometimes I al.

    -- tox ward.

    -- tied to ths.

    -- eve avoided it.

    -- So far.

    -- Knock wood.

    -- I did.

    -- ell, its a bitch.

    -- Like  ing on timacy. I was shocked.

    -- In her robes of deep purple.

    -- Seeking tatic vision. t  off the floor.

    -- Six feet.

    -- Four feet or six feet off the floor. Persephone herself appearing.

    -- ting in telesterion.

    -- Perseping offerings, balls of salt, solid gold serpents, fig branches, figs.

    -- ory dancing. All the women drunk.

    -- Dancing ures of barley, er, mint --

    -- Knohings unspeakable --

    -- Still, all I ed to do tle krummtle krummhorn once in a while.

    -- Can open graves, properly played.

    -- I was never good. Never really good.

    -- ice?

    -- And your clavier.

    -- Momma didnt low clavier.

    -- t it er leas know.

    -- hem, mommas.

    -- I mean t all, felt it all. Spilled t buckets of muselling t  number the scale of all husbands. . .

    -- tossed tle bombita no to keep oes.

    -- oes, spent oes, the grease.

    -- e said  going to do Daddy.

    -- I forgot.

    -- Old Momma.

    -- ell, its not easy, conducting teries. Its not easy, making the corn grow.

    -- Asparagus too.

    -- I couldnt do it.

    -- I couldnt do it.

    -- Momma could do it.

    -- Momma.

    -- Luckily .

    -- And Susie.

    -- Our Susie.

    -- Our darling.

    -- Our pride.

    -- Our passion.

    -- I o tell you somete Report. Sed to know why.

    -- o complain? o complain, when fiends have worsened your life?

    -- I told  t Septuagesimal Orgasm, implying s it is groe, very late indeed, for such as we.

    -- But per not to complain, ing t Stoics, Epictetus and so on, just zip into a bar and lift a feening to t-we-shark, knife, music.

    -- I all cool Semple to t priest. t specifically anticlerical. Only in its deepest effects.

    -- I knohimbles on all his fingers.

    -- togeting as time.

    -- Momma  . But Mommas gone.

    -- to t . Fernando taugo read and e by te as snoo sneak into t of bongos concealed under  ed  in time. Propp t, old of t also informed t  live to .

    -- to-earthe sky.

    -- Succeed! It upidity t can astound t experienced.

    -- t of trip presents no real difficulties.

    -- t of trip presents no real difficulties. to keep your eye on is less time, more exciting. Remember t.

    -- As if it e, late, and o pull on our red-and-gold-striped nigs.

    -- Cup of tea before retiring.

    -- Cup of tea before retiring.

    -- Dreams next.

    -- e can deal .

    -- Remembering t tomorroomorroomorrow.

    -- there is always a new music.

    -- thank God.

    -- Pull a fehe mirror.

    -- Routine maintenance, noto e .

 Cort¨¦s and Montezuma

    Because Cort¨¦s lands on a day specified in t ings, because ain ugliness of trangers taken as a group -- for tezuma considers Cort¨¦s to be Quetzalcoatl, t god  of snakes, voo return.

    Montezuma gives Cort¨¦s a carved jade drinking cup.

    Cort¨¦s places around Montezumas neck a necklace of glass beads strung on a cord scented h musk.

    Montezuma offers Cort¨¦s an eartter containing small pieces of meat lig¨¦s declines because  are human fingers.

    Cort¨¦s sends Montezuma a  of t Spanisezumas messengers  encountering t;As to t is like  is  ly s. . .quot;

    Cort¨¦s and Montezuma are tle green flies fill t¨¦s and Montezuma are ime to time one of to brush away a fly.

    Montezuma receives neure ing, from t Cort¨¦s  learn tents. Cort¨¦s is trimming his black beard.

    Do?a Marina, translator, is sleeping ¨¦s in tezuma. Cort¨¦s ae. Sired, Cort¨¦s thinks.

    Do¨¦s and Montezuma ed ; Montezuma asks. quot;Sancs o?quot; says Cort¨¦s. quot;Overturning idols,quot; says Montezuma. quot;Yes,quot; Cort¨¦s says vaguely, quot;yes, , everyw;

    At a concert later t evening, Cort¨¦s is bitten on t. to  slipper. Cort¨¦s removes t. quot;Is t; ;Perfectly,quot; she says.

    Montezuma ion upon Cort¨¦ss sen place s. Soon the docks.

    Montezuma es, in a letter to ;ty y took pains to ion, to pretend t ting tion in t disgusting  saso  in t poo stand in pairs on little s t visiting of one anotil early in the morning. . .

    quot;t beired of o deal ions, of uncovering t, of keeping track of ts -- in s, of o t to remember tiveness,  reminds us of times, is easier. teresting question is, o emerge from obscurity at time? hy now?

    quot;Many people  it is a direct consequence of tly. It is easily seen t, against a y can only be considered a more or less tolerable circumstance -- t  since te years of t Bundle ting, farting, oo, we ;

    A group of great lords ile to Montezuma  meeting in Vera Cruz, under tection of te is fierce; a he room.

    Do?a Marina, altress of Cort¨¦s, o Fatouc;laically. I cannot give you absolution, but I ;

    In tenocl¨¢n, ine, y, temperament.

    Cort¨¦ss men break t bes, and sacred birds.

    Do¨¦s and Montezuma ive to folloezuma; Montezuma ective to follo;tectives of talent in tenocl¨¢n,quot; says Montezuma. quot;t I dont use t -- better t detective.quot;

    Atop t Cue, or pyramid, Cort¨¦s strikes an effigy of ts golden mask; an image of talled in its place.

    quot;t; says Do?a Marina, quot;Juan de Escalante and t beneat.quot;

    Cort¨¦s screams.

    t Crist¨®bal de Olid, and following apia.

    Cort¨¦s is raving. o ts and is greeted by Montezuma. t lords stand on eitezuma supporting ing. tezumas arms around Cort¨¦s. Cort¨¦s speaks urgently into Montezumas ear.

    Montezuma removes from us t repeatedly, until the blood flows.

    Do?a Marina is laer. quot;; says Cuitla;I  scezuma. rast to t of us, remarkably ce. A very religious man, a great student -- Ill s alk about, Montezuma and Cort¨¦s. t; Do?a Marina tucks a , at the back.

    Bernal Diaz del Castillo, rue ory of t of Neands in a square e. tion of Vera Cruz is read, in ezuma is denounced as contrary to t interests of t unborn.

    Cort¨¦s and Montezuma are ;I especially like t. Qua idea,quot; says Montezuma. quot;t; quot;One God, t; Cort¨¦s corrects gently. quot;t t; Montezuma continues, quot;seems to me  seems to me o. Furt; Montezuma stops and taps Cort¨¦s meaningfully on t ;w;

    Bernal asks Montezuma, as a great favor, for a young pretty ezuma sends ogetle, some crickets in cages, and a quantity of fresezuma observes, of Bernal, t quot;o be a gentleman.quot;

    quot;t; Montezuma says.

    Cort¨¦s, sitting in an armchair, nods.

    quot;Because tivation of maize requires on ty days labor per person per year, ted in ternal struggle to o retain, tzalcoatl. . .quot;

    Cort¨¦s smiles and bows.

    quot;Easing train on to face alone t of  of tself. . .quot;

    Cort¨¦s blinks.

    quot;If t of my auts are not controllable by me --quot;

    Cort¨¦s has no reply.

    quot;t is incumbent upon you, dear broto disclose to me t least  I may attempt to manipulate it in a favorable direction ion of  to me.quot;

    Cort¨¦s has no reply.

    Breaking t¨¦ss men discover, on tiny puddle of gold. tion is circulated t ty; is sent to oties.

    Bernal builds a stout enocl¨¢n darkens; flasning; the lake.

    Do¨¦s and Montezuma take ser in a door;Do?a Marina translated it; I ; says Cort¨¦s.

    quot;;

    quot;I .quot;

    quot;You may take t. My gift.quot;

    quot;Your  kind.quot;

    quot;Your ser.quot;

    quot;I cannot leave until all of t, present and future, is stacked in t;

    quot;Impossible on t.quot;

    quot;I agree. Let us talk of somet;

    Montezuma notices t a certain amount of  ed on  doublet. ake better care of him.

    In bed ¨¦s, Do?a Marina displays for iful golden buttocks, ly. A tiny green fly is buzzing about t¨¦s brus aells  a vision. In tezuma is struck in tone, and falls. s ones.

    quot;Dont ; says Cort¨¦s. quot;trust me.quot;

    Fats Cort¨¦s  of tective o folloogets, documents, pograp¨¦s orders t all of tectives in ty be arrested, t tective be abolisenocl¨¢n, and t Fat back to Cuba in chains.

    In tplaces and ters of ty, ne: tranquillity, vinegar, entitlement, schnell.

    On anotezuma and Cort¨¦s and Do?a Marina and t¨¦s and certain great lords of tenocl¨¢n leave to t of ty called Cotaxtla.

    t before a great .

    quot; is t; Cort¨¦s asks, for  before.

    Montezuma replies t it is ting place of tec council or legislature he laws of his people.

    Cort¨¦s expresses surprise and states t it anding t Montezuma is an absolute ruler anso no one -- a statement Do?a Marina tactfully neglects to translate lest Montezuma be given offense by it.

    Cort¨¦s,  ezuma at  ers the building.

    At tionaries eace goose quills filled ¨¦s and ed tery braziers, but Montezuma is not, t look at  greet  reverence saying, quot;Lord, my Lord, my Great Lord.quot;

    ty is usall doors of fragrant cedar into a vast c to tocks a pair of mirrors as is appropriate to y, ter raised somee feating a licue in ter. t in attitudes of rigid attention, arms  ted, eyes fixed on t¨¦s lays a  s;ttery,quot; o Montezuma. Montezuma ¨¦s begins to laugezuma begins to laug¨¦s is cerical. Cort¨¦s and Montezuma run around t  of to turning some, turning ots. quot;I am tate!quot; ss Montezuma, and Cort¨¦s ss, quot;Mot know w ;

    In t possible ¨¦s places Montezuma under .

    quot;Best you come to stay ;

    quot;t Id rat.quot;

    quot;ell ;

    quot;t understand.quot;

    quot;eve got Pitalpitoque so t c;

    quot;I t it albor.quot;

    quot;Pitalpitoque, Quintalbor, tendile.quot;

    quot;Ill send te.quot;

    quot;Come a;

    quot;tened.quot;

    quot; do t;

    quot;I dont kno read t;

    quot;Cutting peoples s out, forty, fifty, sixty at a crack.quot;

    quot;Its tom around ;

    quot;take too mucribute.quot;

    quot;Cant run an empire  tribute.quot;

    quot;Our Lord Jesus C loves you.quot;

    quot;Ill send e.quot;

    quot;Come a;

    Do¨¦s and Montezuma are  a respectful distance carrying ts containing many delicacies: caviar, uffed thrushes, gumbo.

    Co  Montezuma is saying; Cort¨¦s brustle green flies, using a fly ernative?quot; C;I did  best,quot; says Cort¨¦s, quot;proceeding y and conscience.quot; quot;I am murdered,quot; says Montezuma.

    tenocl¨¢n darkens; flasning; the lake.

    t of Montezuma rebukes t of Cort¨¦s. quot; tcone?quot;

 The King of Jazz

    ell Im t o rombone.  been a bone man been king of jazz for many years. But no Spicy MacLammermoor, t. Maybe I better play a fees out of to reassure myself.

    quot;o; said somebody standing on t;Did you ?quot;

    quot;I did,quot; said his companion.

    quot;Can you distinguis ;

    quot;Used to could.quot;

    quot;t playing?quot;

    quot;Sounds like o me. t perfectly selected notes ;

    quot;t?quot;

    quot;tained only by artists of tian, Mississippi.  Spicy MacLammermoor is gone.quot;

    rombone in its trombone case and  to a gig. At the gig everyone fell back before him, bowing.

    quot;! er! ;

    quot; a decide.quot;

    quot; Smoke?quot;

    quot;o; everybody said. quot;Did you ?  knock a fella out, just t a intonation on t boy! God Almig;

    quot;I dont  to play Smoke, quot; somebody said.

    quot;ould you repeat t, stranger?quot;

    quot;I dont  to play Smoke. Smoke is dull. I dont like to play Smoke. quot;

    quot;o play Smoke! But ;

    quot;Man, you from outa to do you mean you refuse to play Smoke?  on t;

    quot;I am okyo, Japan.quot;

    quot;Os, e;

    quot;Yes Im top trombone man in all of Japan.quot;

    quot;ell youre ennessee tea Room still top jazz place in tokyo?quot;

    quot;No, top jazz place in tokyo is t;

    quot;ts nice. O.K., no like ;

    they said:

    quot;Good God!quot;

    quot;Yes, ts s of rays coming out of it, some red rays, some blue rays, some green rays, some green stemming from a violet center, some olive stemming from a tan center --quot;

    quot;t young Japanese felloty good, too.quot;

    quot;Yes, ty good. And s frequently t;

    quot;Bent over like t ;

    ional, . Maybe I ougo kill him.

    But at t moment somebody came in t of ave marimba. Yes, it  Man Jones, and o play even before he door.

    quot;re ;

    quot; Billies Bounce. quot;

    quot;ts  it ;

    quot;F.quot;

    quot;ts   you use to play ;

    quot;Yea band for a al.quot;

    quot; for?quot;

    quot;I ired.quot;

    quot; can o astic playing?quot;

    quot; some rain or stars?quot;

    quot;Maybe ts presumptuous?quot;

    quot;Ask ;

    quot;You ask  fool around  young Japanese guys pretty good, too.quot;

    quot;ional.quot;

    quot;You t;

    quot;ell I dont ts Englis;

    trombones been makin my neck green for ty-five years, .  to stand up to yet anote in life?

    quot;ell, ;

    quot;Yes, Mr. Mokie?quot;

    quot;You did  about as good as me, I regret to say. In fact, Ive decided youre better ts a o contemplate, but t is. I y-four  t demands o trut.quot;

    quot;Maybe youre mistaken?quot;

    quot;No, I got ears. Im not mistaken. ;

    quot;You  to be king emeritus?quot;

    quot;No, Im just going to fold up my eal a tune.quot;

    quot; Cream?quot;

    quot;O.K., you  s Cream. You ready, ;

    quot; o leave. You can play too. Just move a little over to t;

    quot;ts very gracious of you. I guess I tle, since Im still to voce, of course.quot;

    quot;;

    quot;Yes, I imagine its  tune.quot;

    quot;s t sound coming in from t;

    quot;;

    quot;t.quot;

    quot;You mean t sound t sounds like tting edge of life? t sounds like polar bears crossing Arctic ice pans? t sounds like a ? t sounds like male o ttom of t sounds like fumaroles smoking on t. Katmai? t sounds like turkey  forest? t sounds like beavers crees in an Appalac sounds like an oyster fungus grorunk? t sounds like a mule deer ane of t sounds like prairie dogs kissing? t sounds like cumbling or a river meandering? t sounds like manatees munc Cape Sable? t sounds like coatimundis moving in packs across t sounds like --quot;

    quot;Good God, its e on,  off tand!quot;

    quot;o  for a large steel sop ;

    quot;o  exciting Cream ever played! Is ?quot;

    quot;Yes, somebody is getting er.quot;

    quot;Youre my man,   t;

    quot;Youre t;

    quot; ;

    quot;Yes, Mr. o admit it, you bleill.quot;

    quot;ts O.K., son. Dont t it. It o t of us. Or it almost o t of us. No everybody to ime because s. Flats is next.quot;

    quot;iturn to my el and pack. I am most grateful for everyt;

    quot;ts O.K., s. quot;

 The Question Party

    quot;Yes, Maria, y on next t and I emplation for all our old friends  air about Mrs. teacered ter ed betokened t gave  satisfaction. ter uning y ion so give and to make tertaining sermined to introduce a neure e some excitement in tances and afford t. S  upon tering tisfaction upon iced by er.

    quot;S; s;But  you are preparing for our friends? Are you going to sing?quot;

    quot;No, Miss, I am going to do no suc kno is until ty!quot;

    quot;No is too bad. You are too ed. You knoent of y and yet you  gratify me. Are you going to introduce a ne;

    quot;tioning; I s tell you anyt it, so you may as ;

    quot;Do you intend s?quot; perseveringly inquired Maria.

    quot;No provoke me to cancel my promise by your pertinacity. I tell you as a punis for quizzing your mot knoil t  is.quot;

    quot;Morning or evening, Mot;

    quot;Evening, Miss. So no more questions but get about ing your invitations.quot;

    Maria proceeded to taking from it epaper and envelopes commenced ing.

    Eigy. t  and  t  conceal t so be considered. Mr. and Mrs. e came next, t pompous in leman quite so. An interest in a canal boat s, and some of ances broadly ed t if  up in small pieces and retailed out for starciny. t. teen and ty, seemed someed,  ted to find ts, er presented themselves.

    Mr. Lyncy,  to claim ttention of t, t man,  curled up on o cultivate an acquaintance tention to toilet for t o to attract ttention of a fe. A standing collar formed a semi- polis. At about  nine, ts ably boted conversation.

    time in singing ners ed and everyone e, reminding one strongly of a group in a state of advanced intoxication. tracted to sucent by ts of t  s ime and to stop and reprove  at t moment Mrs. teacer and music, calling for everyone,  exception, to come into t parlor as so s o get into t knocked one of the Misses Jennings over.

    ter muced, Mrs. teacook from ter table a  containing a pack of plain, gilt-edged cards and explained t s and entertaining amusement for teresting.

    quot;Maria,quot; sinued, quot;, my dear, and let eac from it one of t;

    Maria did as ed.

    quot;I sion,quot; said Mrs. teac;to e an ansal beer ted I  singly and o be no mark upon ts aut;

    tering of pencils at t and an evident curiosity ely raised in regard to t which would be propounded.

    quot;As ty of ladies  question:  is a bac;

    For ter of an e attacks upon t t ansten and deposited in teacask of reading them aloud.

    quot;A target for fair o s at,quot; she read.

    A general lauged this response.

    quot;I beg of you, ladies,quot; said Mr. Lync;not to s too close to me, but I kno my prayer is to no avail since your arro vase.quot;

    th.

    quot;Any icy peak, on tain of y, t ted,quot; read Mrs. teach.

    quot;t,quot; said Mr. Lyncting he Misses Jennings.

    quot; ; she cried, releasing herself from him.

    quot;I read it in your face t,quot; he replied.

    quot;t turn our faces from you, or ; said t.

    quot;I beg you, do not!quot; exclaimed Mr. Lync;For t would deprive me of muc;

    quot;An old maids forlorn ; said Mrs. teac response, tness of  a sense of propriety restrained any ackno of tantly drao divert attention from it, and to relieve Miss Ja from  dilemma.

    quot;A fox longing for t;

    quot;No!quot; said Mr. Lync;I could never find it in my  to pronounce any lady sour.quot;

    quot;, indeed! t time I ever kneo acknoicle,quot; Mrs. teach quickly replied.

    quot;t; said Mr. Lyncaking from  a  . quot;And observe, t as you are endeavoring to plant ts partner ;  on, placing  part of  wicle.

    turned on Mrs. teacher card.

    quot;A creature ied  t;

    quot;It must be you, Miss Bookly,quot; said Mr. Lync;as you are sitting closest to me.quot;

    quot;I did not e it,quot; said Miss Bookly. quot;And besides, Miss Jennings ting closest to you before ser you put your arms around her.

    quot;t is true,quot; h a mock sigh.

    Anoterminated tion on t subject.

    quot;Just like Mr. Lync;

    t of t t  zeal, and in a fes exclaimed, quot;ell! I really do target to s at tonig is  I am good-natured, else I migaliate ions of my o;

    t Maria.

    Mrs. teaco t card.

    quot;One y but sig;

    quot;t e,quot; Mr. Lyncfully, quot;ed. But I recall no suc, a kind of staco tate -- an odium combined edium. Sleeping rumpets is not t business in t;

    quot; are t; asked Miss Bookly.

    quot;Some are c,quot; said Mr. Lynch.

    quot;For !quot; exclaimed Mr. e.

    quot;A bit of fres; said Mr. Lync;can --quot;

    Mr. e dreol and s Mr. Lync.

    quot;Good Lord! ; cried Mrs. teach.

    Dr. Balfour knelt over t;Yes, ; ed tor in placing the sofa.

    quot;t one more card in t; said Mrs. teaco ticle in question. quot;Dare  it?quot;

    quot;Yes, yes,quot; ;I sincerely  it may be a favorable one,quot; said Mrs. teac;for I fear onig;

    t card eac closely on bot;Blank!quot;

    quot;A prop; said t; o ;

    quot;It  a matter of forekno; said Maria. quot;t to e.quot;

    quot;ell,quot; said Mrs. teac;I am not entirely satisfied tle experiment t to anoto certainment for our next.quot;

    quot;Not at all,quot; said Mr. e. quot;te its sad but necessary consequences,  delig recall ing ty. And as I s party, I s certainly adopt your little experiment, as you call it.quot;

    quot; ion be?quot; asked Miss Ja.

    quot;Somet; said Mr. e, winkle.

    quot;Parties are al; said Miss Ja.

    quot;I am inviting Geronimo, co be in to; said Mr. e.

    quot;t  all t; said Mrs. teac;as I am told t remely cruel to ;

    quot;remely cruel to everyone,quot; said Mr. e.

    Yes, it y after all, Maria t. My mot dumb. My motelligent. It o t Mr. Lyncrange is justice! ful woman!

    Aute: t trouv¨¦. It  and added some three dozen lines.

 Belief

    A group of senior citizens on a bencon Square Park in Ney. tizens and tizens.

    quot;Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit,quot; one of turned o eache four corners of an imaginary room as she did so.

    tizens stared at her.

    quot;?quot; one of the men asked.

    quot;Its t of t four times, once to eac you are in, on t of t lunc mont;

    Some angry black people eel-band instruments and bunches of flowers.

    quot;I dont ts true,quot; tizen said. quot;I never  before and Ive ;

    quot;I ts probably just an old ale,quot; one of tizen cracked up.

    quot;S; t he second woman.

    t to make sure all of our countrys satellites  places.

    quot; about your daug; t, ;You  ;

    quot;My daug; Kate said, quot;you  believe.quot;

    quot;; Elise asked. quot;Georgia or some I forgot. Going to sc;

    quot;Sting ers,quot; Kate said, quot;teco visit at t;

    quot;But you didnt.quot;

    quot;I called  to t mind going to t me a ticket. And s Motion. My daug;

    quot;t no; Elise said, quot;youre lucky s keeping company s ail.quot;

    quot;ell?quot; said Kate. quot;Id be t to kno;

    One of tner and asked: quot;ell, is it ;

    quot;to do,quot; Kate said calmly. quot;You and your girl friend eace t day of ted to ask you to go out ;

    quot;I dont believe it,quot; said tizen, whose name was Jerome.

    quot;You closed your eyes and picked one and put it in your s boy  al;

    quot;I dont believe it,quot; Jerome said again. quot;I dont believe in t and never  believe in magic and I dont believe in superstition. I dont believe in Judaism, Cianity, or Eastern t. None of em. I didnt believe in t orld ar even t orld ar and youll go a long  orld ar. t .quot;

    quot; if you didnt believe in it?quot; Elise asked.

    quot;My vie consulted,quot; Jerome said. quot;t ask me, told me. But I still  I didnt believe in it. I  mars tire battalion of Seabees, six ;

    quot; is s;

    quot;ts uff t ;

    quot; s t;

    quot;Black market stuff. Booze. Dope. Government property. Unaut; ; else didnt I believe in? I didnt believe in tom bomb but I  t. t;

    quot;You  t too,quot; said t;I ype operator ype operator until I y and let me tell you, mister, if  say anyt trade union movement alking about. You dont.quot;

    quot;I didnt believe in t believe in t ; Jerome said. quot;And I didnt believe in --quot;

    quot;t.U. is considered a very good union,quot; Elise said. quot;I once  .U.  o Luc. ;

    quot;Did you believe in ternational Communist conspiracy?quot; Frank asked Jerome.

    quot;Nope.quot;

    quot;You cant read,quot; Frank said, quot;youre blind.quot;

    quot;Maybe.quot;

    quot;I  decided about ional Communist conspiracy,quot; Elise said. quot;Im still t it.quot;

    quot;s to t?quot; Frank asked. quot;t all.quot;

    Some street people  tizens but decided t tizens  heir faces.

    quot;tle girl, I o go into my fato get tter,quot; Kate said. quot;My fat me doairs to get tter. All turned and looked at me as I entered t;

    quot;But your fat from be you tter mean all to keep t you,quot; Elise suggested.

    quot;No,quot; Kate said. quot; of time.  t bartenders not drinking is not true.quot;

    quot;Also I didnt believe in ted Nations and before t I didnt believe in tions,quot; Jerome said. quot;Furt; e a meaningful glance, quot;I didnt believe ;

    Kate gazed at Jeromes coat,  s,  his shoes, which were new.

    quot;Do you ate trouble?quot; she asked.

    quot;Yes,quot; Jerome said, artled look. quot;Of course. ;

    quot;Good,quot; Kate said. quot;I dont believe in prostate trouble. I dont believe tate.quot;

    She gave him a generous and loving smile.

    quot;You mean to tell me t if you put t in your s day of t; Elise asked Kate.

    quot;Invariably,quot; Kate said. quot;it fail. orked every time.quot;

    quot;Goddamn,quot; Elise said. quot;is.quot;

    quot;t; Jerome said.

    quot;?quot;

    quot;Its religious.quot;

    quot; is it?quot;

    quot;My pal told me,  ;

    quot;So?quot; said Elise. quot;So, so, so?quot;

    quot;It is forbidden to gro;

    t about the bench.

    quot;Its good,quot; Kate said. quot;I could do  t;

    quot;Me too,quot; Elise said. quot;I could do  t;

    quot;Maybe its not so good?quot; Jerome asked. quot; do you t;

    quot;No,quot; Kate said. quot;Its good.quot; S  ting in sandboxes and jungle gyms. quot;iso yell at.quot;

 Tales of the Swedish Army

    Suddenly, turning a corner, I ran into a unit of treet, mostly six-by-sixes and jeeps, an occasional APC, all painted a sand color quite different from to t of t up tents of t among tents, making not muc range to see to some sort of joint maneuvers roops. But it range to see there.

    I began talking to a lieutenant, a young, pleasant man; able ccick bamboo painted purple. I told ion to tter of fact I ers level Id just boug. ime, and asked if I needed ed t probably   fairly soon, but o indicate t ture  imminent. erested in assisting me, so I accepted.

    and alked about Uppsala, t Stock Bodil Malmsten; . My  really mine, my sisters, but I lived t)  far aood in t tting neop of to  the wall.

    I apologized profusely, and Bengt told me not to  didnt matter, but  surning it over in rying to bring it to life. I rus it myself, bottered and part of tcick casing  to  he job.

    After a acking to teen-penny nails. anding in teadying times required to lean out ratried to recover, and bas the wall, and broke his nose.

    ood in to t some ice cubes and paper toold ake o tal rig ors of ted to do sometook   isnt muc, just lots of lemon-pepper marinade and t just before serving. I could see  o keep giving o ed me very uffed ter and stewed, we down.

    t told me various t t it oug small; t everybody in tty  t ts in deep caves t ains, so t if to t t Id seen  s in ty, making up a full battalion. ly Luterians and Evangelicals, and t drugs  a problem but t people sometimes overslept, driving ts crazy.  t to   t t  o name tential enemy, because I kne already, and t te musical group elevision late at night.

    By noable oen on , ure, Bengt informed me t er. I said t   ;t is no difficulty,quot; ;I can see by looking around t kind of a all, is s? And red  not true?quot;  on describing my sister, ly identifying eaceacing. quot;t; ;t be,quot; and rose to inspect some oils in Kulicke frames on t;I kne. From t deal can be knoemperament of ter, ial spirit. I ely,quot; ;and marry Cat is legally possible.quot;

    quot;Youre already married!quot; I said, and ted yes, t it  in Soo, many cases personally knoo me, and t if o marry Cat stand in  rary, do everyto furt. At t t and Catered h her new husband, Richard.

    I took Bengt back to  in a cab, one c, t t in time, a revie, a s company paraded by, looking vastly trim and efficient in ts and red berets, and a very pretty little girl came out of t of floo accept tiful small yelloain spotted-fever tick leaped from a rose and bit  to visit us again.

 The Abduction from the Seraglio

    I ting in my brand-neler building, surrounded by steel of y folded at ninety-degree angles. ttier ted brigold em I ed a big door. A big door in front o evade t-poison salesman. You ever been out -poison salesman? ttle red eyes.

    I y-t overraveling crane epladder  a lo. Id been t bread, colored steel bread, all kinds of colors of steel bread -- red yelloeel bread -- t no, ts not it. And Id already made all teel four-tice t  let me drink no more, only a little Lone Star beer no mucc,  crack crack crack across t ive people reac in order not to totally e time of my life, I ter get on tick and bust Constanze out of the seraglio.

    Chorus:

    Oanze oanze

    you doin in t se-rag-li-o?

    I been poppin Darvon and mothballs

    Poppin Darvon and mothballs

    Ever since I let you go.

    ell, I motored out to t blindsided on to get  t-poison factories, all the-road song

    rollin

    rollin

    rollin

    rollin

    but t just a  of actual forion despite to possibility. turned out to be a Butler building too, mucer of course, t son of a bitc a little ed steel t you can put toget of a catalogue and set eak from t  big doors in  one little tee-ninesy door ure of an unfed-recently Doberman pasted on it, I took t as a  and I t Constanze, Constanze, how could you be so dumb?

    te to admit it, Constanzes a little dumb. S so dumb as a lady I once kne s perfect. You tell  t to t for a moment, ive. Im some kind of an artist, but Im conservative. Mine is t of t many years as a talented and elegant country-music groupie. S knoed it, I . Its a small t irritating. S she knows, if you follow me.

    Chorus:

    Oanze oanze

    you doin in t se-rag-li-o?

    I been sleepin on paper towels

    Sleepin on paper towels and

    Drinkin Sea amp; Ski

    Ever since I let you go.

    tually. erious pos  ty is four eel artic rigudio, iciful form, maybe too mannerly, I rougs  is. I dont even mind t  stand is a dealer. In anyt t its been earned. Anyiced t Constanze iful, in fact semi-incredible looking, urned o be said.  to t of flank steak, and . If  compete. (In all y I o concede t s.)  ler building just to mock me and because s so dumb s dead in a big fancy layout in River Oaks or somerying to suggest is, se relation to the real.

    I cant understand t. ying sakes care to dance ruck me at first glance as terrible tion to texas Observer every year. Sributes regularly to ted ay and got gassed in great cities a time or t-poison salesmen. Sook care of me t time I tle psycic episode. S. Once I sa, to me, is t  be the real one.

    ell, I opened t me raging and snarling and generally carrying on in t ed of y-five-pound reinforced-concrete pork co Constanze. e used to reet togetogeted to float in t. It didnt  I guess, as tects say, t marble. Sedly move on and up and doemple, texas, making everytter t ime. e adventured. ts not bad.

    Chorus:

    Oanze oanze

    you doin in t se-rag-li-o?

    how I miss you

    how I miss you

 The Death of Edward Lear

    took place on a Sunday morning in May 1888. Invitations  out ations read:

    Mr. Edward LEAR

    Nonsense riter and Landscape Painter

    Requests the honor of Your Presence

    On the Occasion of his DEMISE.

    San Remo		2:20 a.m.

    th of May 		Please reply

    One can imagine ts. Our dear friend! is preparing to depart! and suc be, no me see. . . And t time I (dipped into) ( on tances approacure of solemnity and practicalness, per friend, tennyson:

    Old men must die,

    or the world would grow mouldy

    and:

    For men may come and men may go,

    But I go on forever.

    People prepared to attend t ry. Picnic baskets  o expect too mucality, under tances); bottles of oys o o be taken or left beually present at t restrain t tugged at t to be removed from the room.)

    Most of Mr. Lears friends decided t te time to arrive at t, or in t neigo alloleman time to make o do, before t. Everyone understood ime specified in tation meant. And so, tors found t Giuseppe Orsini) in almost total darkness. Pausing to greet people to corral straying c lengto a large room on t floor,  omed to ex ercolors, and tably aircase to a similar room on ted, in bed,  smoking jacket and acles iny oval lenses. Several dozen straiger arrivals stood along the walls.

    Mr. Lears first ;Ive no money!quot; As eacs entered ted, quot;Ive no money! No money!quot; remely tired, yet calm.  retaining patcly not been trimmed in some days. ely began to discourse, as if to prevent anyone else from doing so.

    for attending and expressing t  put to too great an inconvenience, ackno t;an unusual one for visits!quot;   find  to disclose oget ty little lecture, of some tes duration, on tion of ings, of ance, alt it was charming, graceful, and wise.

    artled s ion, uttered in a kind of s;S married? Get married? S;

    Mr. Lear next offered a s  Friends golden of tions. It is also, en trongest of ies, surviving strains and tempests fatal to less sublime relations. ed t ituted t memory of a long life.

    A disquisition on Cats followed.

    opic Cain restlessness o s at intervals, quot;S married?quot; and quot;Ive no money!quot;)  as everybody  more te interest ed. Next ion of ercolors, vieiquities and picturesque spots. too, ercolors tleman  ¡ê5 and ¡ê10, for t forty years.

    Mr. Lear noext of tennysons in a setting of ly, ted vigorous applause.

    Finally o be o ts an enormous oil, at least seven feet by ten, depicting Mount Ation, but it did not seem to satisfy ter, for he assumed a very black look.

    At 2:15 Mr. Lear performed a series of actions to tators.

    At 2:20 o table, picked up an old-fasely taken. ts, edly, moved in a long line back to the carriages.

    People , all in all, it  tedious performance.  to read tures, run toire once more? ations? tood: t Mr. Lear   doing anytraordinary. Mr. Lear ransformed traordinary into its opposite.  of fact, created a gentle, genial misunderstanding.

    ts began, as time passed, to regard torical ligold t it, reenacted parts of it for t;Ive no money!quot; in a comical voice, and quote  marrying. time passed, t revivals aged in every part of try, ill be seen, in ties, in versions enricerpretation, textual emendation, and cion is curious; no one kno. ting company plays in traditional  Lear ing, s h rage.

 Concerning the Bodyguard

    Does t ts? ed a bro? A great bro over t?

    Does tion  for t to cro?n? it is tone? Does t on traffic? ical discussion h his principal?

    Is tened by tials D.I.t.?

    Is tened by tials C.N.D.?

    ill today, in time to see time to see Emmanuelle Around tickets? ill tudents in the queue?

    Is tened by tened by black spray paint, tall letters gly at t ion did the bodyguard leave school?

    Is tly ? As enant? Is tro?n armored? Is t is t speed of t equal t of a BM? A BM motorcycle? Several BM motorcycles?

    Does tance of erms of t be otimes sucional precautions, and does t times, feel  of an ocean of bodyguards? Is ed at times? Does o t and left and a point car far, far ahead?

    After leaving tec sort of enterprises did ting  post?  sort of offense? ual respect? Is tual contempt? akes tea, is tea? Beer? ho pays?

    Can tances of professional success?

    ?

    Is the group of bodyguards? hy?

    ter?  services does t be asked to perform? Is ime to time to perform sucion to tion, tips? Of w size? On w occasions?

    In taurant, a good table for inguis (betable able for t is ty of tion bets of bodyguards?  do talk about? Soccer, percc Scard Peruvian? Do t by t ? ed ty bet of ween hose of his principal?

    In every part of try, large cities and small totles of c aion, reserved for a special day. Is this?

    Is tired of ting out of bed and tains to discover, again, eiganding at top across treet in postures of depression? Is ter se robe  positioned in sucstretco craze and flake, and are tuck along t edge of trousers plus a long-sleeved orn from taped inside ttle of Long Jocop tor? te? Dull-green ceramic pot on taining an un? A copy of Explication du tai Cegner? Does ty? Is   blocs ry aligned itself  orld ar? Does tries are t trading partners of ry, at t time?

    Seated in a restaurant arily, turtle soup. Does s? on, ance to t o a s s c  competence plus supplemental on occasion, tun grenades ready to  seat?   to t are his plans?

    Is tirement age for bodyguards calculated as it is for otizens? Is it earlier, fifty-five, forty-five? Is t amount? taring at taring at tro?n, s of  t ing outside t Ministry, t ers,  propped against the new one reliable?

    Is tened by young  tuation is unfair? ill ty far aop at a grocers on the child a peach? Does he buy himself a peach?

    ill tested, be equal to ask? Does truction of rys nuclear reprocessing plant? Does tions of tional Banks yearly report on debt service  ty of April coincided  of sixty persons? Does t tion? Does tronize a restaurant called t Communists? Does o disclose e? Is ure understood?

    Are treets full of stilt-ilt-en feet above t papier-macumes,  of colored clotry? In tare at topped for a lig , tron is speaking into a teleps doelep be counted, too many of t be knooo many of t be predicted, tion. tes.

    Is it t, on a certain morning, ty, tire country, are overfloy ctles?  fault?

 The Zombies

    In a rees. tanding about talking. quot;Beautiful day!quot; quot;Certainly is!quot; to buy  o zombies. quot;Beautiful day!quot; quot;Certainly is!quot; t many cattle. to a zombie is exactly t asked of an ordinary man. ttle are also zombies and terror lest tand this.

    ted ed and rils speears. ttention of to ters peering from ts in some ers. quot;You must promise not to tell t; say t;promise not to tell tiful day, certainly is.quot;

    te-painted zombies cter madly, in tion of gaiety. quot;Boug!quot; quot;You did!quot; quot;Yes, boug, t Im s very fine!quot; quot;O is, it is, yes I t; ttle kick at transforms an ordinary man into a zombie. tain of team,  ry, seeking a specific for deadly nigal ter is creeping around in t full speed tohe village.

    If a bad zombie gets you, ake a ter and dance. quot;Did you see t lady? ould t lady marry me? I dont knoty lady! ould t lady marry me? I dont kno; tributor  up a keg of beer in teac;onderful time! Beautiful day! Marvelous singing! Excellent beer! ould t lady marry me? I dont kno; In a rees, from trees.

    t;t; Gris Grue said t many of to ly fit, in , to engage in trade, lead important enterprises, s in t, and participate in teries of Baptism, Confirmation, Ordination, Marriage, Penance, t, and Extreme Unction. t many tle to t Ordination. If a bad zombie gets you, e insult in your bladder. t nigo pull t oers and describes, ions of s t in a zombie home.

    quot;Monday!quot; ;Sliced oranges boiled grits fried croakers potato croquettes radisercress broiled spring cter cakes butter syrup and caf¨¦ au lait! tuesday! Grapes enderloin of trout steak Frencatoes celery frester and caf¨¦ au lait! ednesday! Iced figs ena porgies artare potato coast and caf¨¦ au lait! tmeal broiled patassas fried liver oast ! Friday! Straers on toast celery fried percatoes cornbread ! Saturday! Muskmelon on ice grits steripe te olives snipe on toast flannel cakes !quot; t;Sunday!quot; ;Peac re del creamed cen biscuits broiled oes ¨¤ la duc oysters on t! And imported c; t to see if t is pleasing.

    A o t. If you do en years, t still a zombie. ter of true . ters are tired of kissing eac. tired of paying for ters se;O a pretty lady! I o ; Bad zombies are leaning against tco mate only icks. t  t zombies are tion. A o anot;t; quot;Yes,quot; says t;I sa  ; temperature of a en degrees.

    ting upon  car e episcopal flags flying from t and left fenders. quot;Forbidden, forbidden, forbidden!quot;  t of sunset ttle collapse. turn to t;No matter. t  do. e e pograpograp is time to go to bed. No us cut t; t;Youre edly!quot; ticks in ts you, s you,  a beautiful breast  even noticing.

 Morning

    -- Say youre frig it.

    -- In Colorado, by tains. In California, by the sea. Everywhere, by breaking glass.

    -- Say youre frightened. Confess.

    -- timid as a stag. t a meter o my s, I dont kno measures. I get a dollar a nigice its tctle song.

    -- ere you invited to ty?

    -- Yes, I ood t, tigs,  songue? Sliced? it a private matter? Is Scriabin as smart as alking to eresting, but inside are dull bones. -- t, I dont see and it. -- A firestorm of porn all around -- orange images, dunes and deserts. Bursts of quarreling tried t Cuisine Minceur, didnt like it. O looks pretty --

    -- Say youre frightened.

    -- Im friges and flo a lot of sirens because of tal. By coffee, dead s, people , vestments and bells.

    -- Get some Vitamin E. I take eigs.

    -- t, O, not again. t time t a bicycle, fancy Japanese bicycle somebodyd left in t ually it  a cro was a jack handle.

    -- Im not afraid of crime, t to be crime, its t 	 -- I mean if t take it out of your bank account, by punctons or something. . .

    -- Im not afraid of snakes. t to go to tings notle handling.

    -- Not afraid of t so muco be, all tening letters, I just say sticks and stones, sticks and stones, see triage nurse.

    -- Its only o t it. I dont stop.

    -- Not afraid of o  afraid of tarantulas, used to oo, to co toop hoe, by preference.

    -- Nature in general not seen as antipatic. Nor are ot for t to slap your ears back  first presenting te-and-blue ts.

    -- Beumble.

    -- S out of bed and, doing a cute little o the day I would see her real walk.

    -- t gun. t means  friendly. t any of t government money?

    -- I sent for the forms. Merrily merrily merrily merrily.

    -- t us some of t good per diem?

    -- If you decide to run for it a bus is better. No ones seated facing you. t bigger he drivers are usually reliable.

    -- ell ts one t to stay away from. Fligoo muc.

    -- But o all trange places ty. Nobody on treets and Im not used to t. taurants all , surf n turf, prime rib. Spend a fe, leaving a dollar or the maids.

    -- turkeying around trying to get situated.

    -- Searco go to bed  if she agrees?

    -- ts o me several times. You just o be .

    -- tiable. true.

    --  are you afraid of? Mornings, noons, or nights?

    -- Mornings. I send out a lot of postcards.

    -- take a picture of tionally dirty s grays. I t you a knig about ternal Return?

    -- Distant, distant, distant. t o talk to you.

    -- t;One Oclock Jump,quot; quot;t; quot;t; and quot;Four OClock Jump.quot; television. theyre all dead now.

    -- t scare you?

    -- Na doesnt scare me.

    -- t scare you?

    -- Na doesnt scare me.

    --  scares you?

    -- My s not well.

    -- ? ts alk. Not bad is it?

    -- Scarcely  proved, stood drinking at ter.

    -- Let me give you a : Find me one animal t is capable of personal friendship.

    -- So I decided it  time  gay. I c s --

    -- Call up Bomba t ?

    -- Fixed up tuff I ed tems of laure, birdbatands. . .

    -- t set toes to tapping, did it?

    -- tions amp; Sinfonias. It  bad. It was a success.

    -- It is t traits are intended to celebrate.

    -- t of anote, the arena.

    -- I knew hem well.

    -- As do I. Shes brave.

    -- t some of t fine grant money?

    -- If ood. If I applaud, tors understand t I am pleased. If I take a needle and singe it cand t I er in my foot. If I say quot;s been murdered?,quot; you understand t I am cognizant of native unrest. If I and t I am trying to improve myself. Appeals to patriotism, small-boat warnings up.

    -- Say youre frightened.

    -- Im frig maybe not tomorrow.

    -- ell ts one t to stay a mad instead. I got mad, really got mad.

    -- Put-on anger. A technique of managers.

    -- Got so mad I coulda bit a cwo.

    -- And very graciously. Skin of dreams, paint marks, red scratcains. e ces. Fed on ixias, ook an early plane. how do I feel? O.K.

    -- Anot glorious day. ried to get a drink on one of trains? Its as easy as pie.  anyt over tarpaper or maybe some boards? Do you  to ;ttle ;? Is this red?

    -- Jugs and jugs. t, t.

    -- Going home.

    -- No, thank you.

    -- Youre afraid of it?

    -- Indeed, do I still live?

    --  are you afraid of?

    -- One old man alone in a room. three old men alone in a room.

    -- ell maybe you could talk to thing.

    -- And say:  pleasure,  fun? Lets go out and bust up a bar, its been a long time.  are you up to, ill lifting ;You please me, ;

    -- ell I dont t tuff a lot of time.

    -- y is barefoot, Leractive and , trangling a lion, by s dos t.

    -- y end?

    -- I  t to scat, I said, got to get a to creep, its t time of nigt I lie on.

    -- Say youre frightened.

    -- Less and less. I ector and tickets to everyop e Globe turnip seeds, for the roof.

    -- ant to see my collection of bass clarinets? ant to see my collection of painters ears? t, I dont see and it.

    -- I grayed it up myself. Sets off the orange.

    -- A fine person. took tment exam and passed it. ts just one example.

    -- All al, so me, and Caius is a woman.

    -- Say youre not frightened. Inspire me.

    -- After a whe search.

 On the Steps of the Conservatory

    -- Cmon  fret.

    -- ell Maggie its a blow.

    -- Dont let it bot let it get you down.

    -- Once I t to admit me to tory but no me to tory.

    -- Yes ticular about o tory. t you to tory.

    -- t me to tory, I kno now.

    -- You are not Conservatory material Im afraid. ts trut.

    -- Youre not important, told me, just remember t, youre not important, ant about you? ?

    -- Cmon  fret.

    -- ell Maggie its a blow.

    -- o co a loaf or a fish?

    -- Cian imagery is taug tory, also Islamic imagery and ty.

    -- Red, yellow, and green circles.

    -- old me I got betrotted heavily away.

    -- t black ironory barred to you forever.

    -- trotted ion of my house. My small, poor house.

    -- Cmon  fret.

    -- Yes, I am still trying to get into tory, althan ever.

    -- t  pregnant ory.

    -- I didnt tell t it.

    -- Didnt they ask you?

    -- No t to ask me and I didnt tell them.

    -- ell ts  account t --

    -- I felt they knew.

    -- tory is ile to t, t is not liked there.

    -- ell Maggie its, a bloo go back to my house.

    -- ertain t artists and intellectuals of your time you gro and depressed.

    -- Yes ful lawyer.

    -- Lover?

    -- t too, frig get me into tory because of my unimportance.

    -- as there a fee?

    -- theres always a fee. Pounds and pounds.

    -- I stood on terrace at tory and studied tones reddened ions of Conservatory students. Standing ted: ted to tory.

    -- I read tory Circular and my name  among ted.

    -- ell I suppose it  your espousal of t t counted against you.

    -- I .

    -- And youre a veteran too, I s t would have weighed in your favor.

    -- ell Maggie its a disappointment, I must admit t frankly.

    -- Cmon  ear your hey can see you.

    -- Are t of the windows?

    -- Probably t of the windows.

    -- Its said t t a cook, on feast days.

    -- too.

    -- Do you really t surprised.

    -- t students get t up on trays.

    -- Do you really t surprised.

    -- Grain salads and large portions of cs.

    -- O s, it s, it s.

    -- Bread  days cake.

    -- Im as gifted as ted as some of them.

    -- Decisions made by a committee of gs. te beans into a pot.

    -- Once I t I o be admitted. tters.

    -- Youre not Conservatory material Im afraid. Only t material is Conservatory material.

    -- Im as good as some of t no Conservatory beds.

    -- Merit is always considered closely.

    -- I could smile back at t, dangerous teachers.

    -- Yes, ionally meaningful to us.

    -- I could e together.

    -- Yes, sometimes e tly. Yes, sometimes ory violins, cellos, trumpets for to t t fingers fly over tch pads. . .

    -- I could I suppose fill out anotion, or several.

    -- Yes, you  , flat as a book.

    -- I  get into tory, die.

    -- Na youre just saying t.

    -- I ely croak if I dont get into tory, I promise you.

    -- t so bad, you can al know w, cmon hilda be reasonable.

    -- My w.

    -- O . Didnt ear t to to it.

    -- Now we are grown, grown and proper.

    -- ell, I misled you. tionally meaningful to us.

    -- they are?

    -- e love time -- before breakfast, after breakfast, during breakfast.

    -- s all right!

    -- s rat!

    -- I like t!

    -- ts not so bad!

    -- I old me t.

    -- Cmon  be so single-minded, ts of ot.

    -- I guess te on some kind of principle of exclusivity. Keeping some people out her people in.

    -- e got a Cousta Indian in tta Indian.

    -- In there?

    -- Yes.  of scraps of fabric and tiful, and ings and plays on imes s, and ranslates tta into Engliso Cousta and  and can bulldog steers and catcfisrotlines and ride bareback and make medicine out of common ingredients, aspirin mostly, and or. alented.

    -- My w.

    -- Listen e. e  makes you an Associate. You get te.

    --  are they?

    -- You get the Circular.

    -- ts all?

    -- ell I guess youre right.

    -- Im just going to sit  going to go away.

    -- Your distress is poignant to me.

    -- Ill   on teps.

    -- ell maybe these days.

    -- I feel like a dead person sitting in a chair.

    -- Youre still pretty and attractive.

    -- ts good to .

    -- And warm youre warm youre very warm.

    -- Yes I ure very warm.

    -- erent you in the Peace Corps also years ago?

    -- I oo down in Nicaragua.

    -- tory life is just as  -- precisely so.

    -- I guess Ill just o go back to my ake out trash.

    -- I guess t kidll be born one of t?

    -- Continue udes no matter hey say.

    -- ts admirable I think.

    -- t to let your spirit be conquered.

    -- I guess t kidll be born after a w?

    -- I guess so. t of t?

    -- their minds are inflexible and rigid.

    -- Probably because Im a poor pregnant  you think?

    -- You said you didnt tell them.

    -- But maybe ts and t look at my face and tell.

    -- No it doesnt s hs are you?

    -- t you can tell hes off.

    -- You didnt take your clothes off did you?

    -- No I udents wear. Jeans and a sarape. I carried a green book bag.

    -- Jam-packed udes.

    -- Yes. ten my previous training and I told him.

    -- O , flat as t or a ship.

    -- Youre not important, told me.

    -- Oie I am so sorry for you.

    -- e parted tory ligo t black ironory doors.

    -- I he glass.

    -- My aspect as I departed most dignified and serene.

    -- time hing.

    -- No it doesnt.

    -- Cut lip fat lip puffed lip split lip.

    -- haw! haw! haw! haw!

    -- ell hings in life.

    -- Yes Maggie I suppose t I .

    -- Non-Conservatory people ory people dont o do  old their own lives.

    -- I suppose I could file an appeal if to file an appeal to. If theres anywhere.

    -- ts an idea  stacks of appeals, stacks and stacks.

    -- I can  all nigeps.

    -- Ill sit e the words.

    -- Are t of the windows?

    -- Yes I t do you  to say?

    -- I  to say my .

    -- Its against tory people to ory people you kno.

    -- ell Goddammit I t you o help me.

    -- Okay. Ill  do you  to say?

    -- I  to say my .

    -- e got man naked models and ted plants, and drapes. t. e s of fun. ts of green furniture you kno on it. orn green paint. Gilt lines one-quarter inc lines.

    -- And probably flambeaux in little nic?

    -- Yea flambeaux. her?

    -- Guy named Robert.

    -- Did you ime?

    -- trapped.

    -- , rinse, spin dry.

    -- Is it here Maggie?

    -- I o say it is. Yes. It is.

    -- Do you feel great, being there? Do you feel wonderful?

    -- Yes, it feels pretty good. Very often tray, a rose.

    -- I ted to tory.

    -- You ted to tory.

    -- how do I look?

    -- Okay. Not bad. Fine.

    -- I  there. how do I look?

    -- Fine. Great. time hing hilda.

    -- No it doesnt.

    -- time hing.

    -- No it doesnt. how do I look?

    -- Moot.

 The Leap

    -- today o faitoday.

    -- today?

    -- today.

    -- ere really going to do it? At last?

    -- Spent too mucime fooling around. today .

    -- I dont kno ready?

    -- I am cy and ty of ligodays the day.

    -- Youre serious.

    -- Intensely. First, we examine our consciences.

    -- I am a double-minded man. have always been a double-minded man.

    -- Eacing out, naming, remembering and re-experiencing every last little cank and  and branch.

    -- Smiting eachigh.

    -- te! Smite!

    -- God is good and  poor ches who --

    -- ait.

    -- Poor slovening c for the goodness of God would --

    -- ait. t.

    -- Oh my God.

    -- ?

    -- I just .

    -- A prick of conscience.

    -- Yes. Item 34.

    -- s Item 34?

    -- An unkindness. One of a series. Series long as your arm.

    -- You list tely.

    -- Yes.

    -- You dont just togeto a great big trash bag labeled --

    -- No. I s eacim.

    -- I said it would be painful.

    -- Migpone it?

    -- Meditate instead on heir magnificence.

    -- Not t we could in a  --

    -- Its a sort of if-a-bird-took-one-grain-of-sand-and-fleuation.

    -- Contemplate only trict t over a million species, so far. Neified every day. Insects, mostly.

    -- I like plants better than animals.

    -- Animals give you a lot of h. A dog would be an example.

    -- I like people better ts, plants better tings better tter than animals.

    -- Praising t be your first impulse.

    -- I respect t could emplate something else?

    -- take a glass of er, for example. A glass of er is a miraculous thing.

    -- t wrees.

    -- trees. quot;I t I sree.quot;

    -- quot;A tree  flo.quot;

    -- ;mout;?

    -- ;breastquot;?

    -- tive mind.

    -- An unfatery.

    -- Never to be fathomed.

    -- I  even  to fat. If one fat, homed?

    -- Fat for the --

    -- And anothe human voice.

    -- My God youre righe human voice.

    -- Bessie Smith.

    -- Alice Babs.

    -- Joan Armatrading.

    -- Aretha Franklin.

    -- Eacestifying to ter s own way.

    -- Damn straight.

    -- S Emma Barrett the Bell Gal.

    -- Got you.

    -- Das Lied von der Erde.

    -- I couldnt agree more.

    -- things. Cancer.

    -- An unfatery, at t. But one ably succumb to tific progress.

    -- Economic inequality.

    -- In my vieed in ture by tion gro economic inequality simply cannot endure.

    --  about Z.P.G.?

    -- An ideal ratical reality.

    -- So Gods creatures, in your opinion, multiplying and multiplying and multiplying as per instruction, will --

    -- Propagate fiercely until total of ense t every feature great or small of every life great or small is instantly scrutinized al of ones peers in doubtless electronic ongoing all-seeing everlasting congress assembled. ttle advantage, a little edge, it is instantly taken ale lack, some little lack, ttle lack is instantly supplied, by ters. t be ot going to be any room to fucking move, man, do you follo going to be any room to fucking sneeze,  youre sneezing on somebody. . .

    -- the Divine plan?

    -- le  seems to be ts are --

    -- ts anothe human mind.

    -- Good God yes. the human mind.

    -- t t of our s.

    -- Muc. I can tely comparable.

    -- Is a floeresting, comparable to t.

    -- Matter of y.

    -- I concur. t to knock the flower.

    -- t to say t tiful, interesting flo, in its oerms, entirely fantastic.

    -- toast of tell you about t time  Cmas and ing sacred music over terrain? Spraying terrain as it h sacred music?

    -- So t th could hear and be edified.

    -- quot;O Little to;

    -- Yes, test respect. Not so good of course as t not bad.

    -- Leibniz. illiam of Ock Scty array. I believe Occasionalisms been discredited. But let it stand. It ry, and peacaug to be regarded as a graveyard of dead systems.

    -- tion of suicide. Self-slaug to t it?

    -- s to t?

    -- Look at this.

    --  is it?

    -- the bill.

    -- For  the bill?

    -- A try.

    -- hose?

    -- An acquaintance.

    -- Good God.

    -- Yes.

    -- Ougy-four electrocardiogram ougy-five bucks.

    -- Ougy-four cardiopulmonary two oug oug ougy bucks.

    -- Ougy-four inion t oug ougy bucks.

    -- Ougy-four room four nine one five, a neat one-eighty.

    -- It goes on for miles.

    -- s total?

    -- Seen y cents.

    -- Youd ty cents.

    -- Youd they would.

    -- And tance?

    -- Shes well.

    -- th.

    -- Exactly. You can jump either way.

    -- Shall we examine our consciences now?

    -- You are mad h hurry.

    -- e are but poor lapsarian futiles he grace of Gods goodness would --

    -- Do you ts us to grovel quite so much?

    -- I dont t its traditional.

    -- e hread.

    -- the fire boils below us.

    -- t. Crahings.

    -- tortures unimaginable, but t torture of kno could herwise, had we shaped up.

    -- Purity of  is to hing.

    -- No. y of  is, rato  knoer, truer to  this, forever.

    -- A continuing itche mind.

    -- Sometimes assuagable by timely masturbation.

    -- I forgot. Love.

    -- Oh human and divine.

    -- Love, t form of human endeavor.

    -- Coming or going, te zenith.

    -- Is it permitted to differ h Kierkegaard?

    -- Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.

    -- Love,  usually sanction.

    -- Back rubs.

    -- o see eac clot and shame.

    -- Examining perfections, imperfections.

    -- o say o eac be koshe ordinary rules of civilized discourse.

    -- alkin my baby back home.

    -- Love ogetments t would only hold one sane person, normally.

    -- Misting ts togetalented plants.

    --  love is a sad cookie.

    -- t. Isaiah 30:21.

    -- Cant make it, man.

    -- ?

    -- I cant make it.

    -- the leap.

    -- Cant make it. I am a double-minded man.

    -- ell.

    -- An incorrigibly double-minded man.

    --  then?

    -- Keep on trying?

    -- Yes. e must.

    -- try again another day?

    -- Yes. Anotus is ered, ered.

    -- Seeds tingling in ts.

    -- Garden peas yellow or green wrinkling or rounding.

    -- Anot o Singapore, -ea.

    -- A jug of her jug.

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    -- Anoty-four-year-old guy complains t s.

    -- Small boys bumping into small girls, purposefully.

    -- Cute little babies cracking people up.

    -- Anot proves er t we were.

    -- Gravediggers he cool early morning.

    -- A he park.

    -- Anot turns you every  loose.

    -- ally notice the sublime.

    -- Somersaults and duels.

    -- Anoth really red hair. I mean really red hair.

    -- A wedding day.

    -- A plain day.

    -- So ry again? Okay?

    -- Okay.

    -- Okay?

    -- Okay.

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    -- I ting ready for t day.

    -- Icy day  on all the sidewalks.

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    -- Doing and redoing my lustrous abundant hair.

    -- Man doer and One Eight.

    -- tied flares to my extremities and o my lustrous, abundant ting ready for t day.

    -- For I do not deny t I am a little out of temper.

    -- Glitcem as yet unapprehended.

    -- O clo strains.

    -- Most excellent and dear friend. he silly seasons named for.

    -- My demands  met. One, three, four.

    -- I admire your das regret your fear and prudence.

    -- Al, always.

    -- Yes ts somet. t take t away from us.

    -- tary of State cares. And tary of Commerce.

    -- Yes t unprotected. Soldiers and policemen.

    -- Man down. Corner of Mercer and One Six.

    -- Paying lots of attention. A clear vision of  be done.

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    -- I performed in a s.

    -- t for a few.

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    -- But I mean you really like  you?

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    -- Yes s terly.

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    -- Yea t  a big mouth.

    -- But  to give .

    -- I remember, I can feel till, pressing into me as t afternoons and cool nig-the-mornings.

    -- Yes, Bally is a regal memory for everyone.

    -- My best g. t, in bitter times and good.

    -- trying to get my colors togetrying to play one off against anotrying for cancellation.

    -- I respect your various p, even discourse.

    -- I spent some time ale, and good.

    -- Nonculminating kind of ultimately affectless activity.

    -- oria large and small.

    -- And yet less mien, I  of trouble.

    -- I suppose ts true. Strictly speaking.

    -- Bounding into ting at  of me --

    -- Do you also save string?

    -- On my free evenings and paid  of time I ting, sewing, weaving, welding.

    -- Naming babies, Lou, Lew, Louis.

    -- And oes, oes, t man  toes.

    -- Decorated h rings and rubber bands.

    -- iality for we. e gowns, ss, aprons, flowers, sauces.

    -- y dog all rigy dog.

    -- I  sing ,  one, gun. ting like an exploding pillow.

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    -- Oter, better, I was lax.

    -- Or  fret about it, could  your cute little butt in o dismaler personalities.

    -- I .  I do best.

    -- You are excellent at it. Really first-rate.

    -- Never fail to knock myself out. Put pictures on the rugs.

    -- I really admire you. I really do. to teeth.

    -- Bust your ass, its the only way.

    -- As udying t figures of t. us and Launcelot du Lac.

    -- Poliss nest of seaweed.

    -- And not only t. And not only t.

    -- tickling t to be tickled. Abstaining, w.

    -- Large and admirable men. Not neglecting tuation on a case-by-case basis.

    -- Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

    -- Knerology in its medical aspects. omacomac, God Almig it iresome, tiresome in treme. I dealt  by using astrology in its medical aspects.

    -- to eactention.

    -- Youve got to , too often.

    -- I could ter but I was dumb. imes dumb.

    -- Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. I remember.

    -- ell lets have a drink.

    -- ell I dont mind if I do.

    -- I have Goldwasser, Bombay gin and Old Jeb.

    -- ell I  mind a Scotch myself.

    -- I  too.

    -- Groiful.

    -- Yeaiced t. Losing your glow.

    -- Just gonna sit in t older and worse.

    -- Once you lose your glo it back.

    -- Sometimes by virtue of the sun on a summers day.

    -- rinkling you so t you look like a roast turkey.

    -- As is television.

    -- Let me sure.

    -- Yes ts very lovely.  is it?

    -- Its quot;Vulcan and Maia.quot;

    -- Yes.  o ruggling to get away.

    -- Vigorously? Vigorously. Yes.

    -- ist?

    -- Spranger.

    -- Never heard of him.

    -- ell.

    -- Yes, you may . Any  wall.

    -- thank you.

    -- Probably I can get atention to detail.

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    -- Reading a lot of books and having good ideas.

    -- ell ts not bad. I mean its a means.

    -- Do somet know w.

    -- Like a bass player plucking t trings of rument h powerful plucks.

    -- Blood vessels bursting in my face just under the while.

    --  by malicious criticisms all very well grounded.

    -- asrous, abundant hair.

    -- For Leat, I turn my back. My lustrous, abundant back.

    -- t cracks t?

    -- At least town.

    -- Ease myself into bed of an evening brain jumping ile fluids.

    -- Its greens in a pot.

    -- Its confetti in the swimming pool.

    -- Its U-joints in the vichyssoise.

    -- Its staggers under the moon.

    -- old me terrible t day as  side by side ing for to ing for to wase clean.

    -- took me by the rooms. Many rooms.

    -- I kno it.

    -- tchen is especially splendid.

    -- Quite so.

    -- A dozen Filipinos rays.

    -- Close to t figure.

    -- trays ibles.

    -- Ah, youre a fool. A damned fool.

    -- Goodbye, madame. Dip if you  as you leave, and attend as o t to t of the door.

    -- Figs and kiss-me-nots. I  you upon tly.

    -- I  far beyond time normally allotted for a speaker. Far.

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    -- In a cab. In .

    -- ough Eminence.

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    --  and the floor --

    -- One of my finest. ten minutes.

    -- I am so proud of you. Again and again. Proud of you.

    -- Oe rigely.

    -- ? Are you sure? Are you quite sure? Let me sure.

    -- Yes ts quite grand.  is it?

    -- Its quot;tancred Succored by Ermina.quot;

    -- Yes s a big rag, seems a s girl, God  of it isnt  upper left. . . ist?

    -- Ricchi.

    -- Never heard of him.

    -- ell.

    -- Ill take it. You may stack it  t   wall --

    -- the bill?

    -- Send it anywtle  desires.

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    --  noticed. Let me raise you up.

    -- Maybe in a few days. A few days or a few years.

    -- Lave you h bee jelly and bone oil.

    -- And if I onishing successes --

    -- Mine.

    -- And if I o stomacriumphs --

    -- tangle of gray in t, a rectangle of puce. And be, a square of silver gilt.

    -- Got to get it toget the big bucks.

    -- Yes Im thinking hard.

    -- Frolic and detour.

    -- s t mean?

    -- I dont kno a bit of legal language I picked up somewhere.

    -- No I take a long look at you --

    -- In the fireside --

    -- I find you utterly deligtle cakes hem --

    -- Yes I just feel so fres feel t way every day, or every week.

    -- Last nig tment above stopped barking. Its o into tcood.

    -- Man doer and Eight Nine.

    -- Another wallow?

    -- Ive oday trol is thing.

    -- Control used to be thing. Now, abandon.

    -- Ill never achieve abandon.

    -- ork rate. try Clown, Baby, chose --

    -- Purple bursts in my face as if purple staples apled there every which way --

    --  by malicious criticisms all very well grounded --

    -- O clo strains.

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    -- I love you, e exceptionally.

    -- By gum I t. I think you do.

    -- Its quot;Portia ounding ;

    -- Its quot;olfram Looking at ;

    -- If you need a friend Im yours till the end.

    -- Your gracious and infinitely accommodating presence.

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    -- t in me. Nowhere.

    -- O is so fine. Incomparable.

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    -- ell, I dont kno know her very well do you?

    -- ell, I know o ask her.

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    -- ell, probably time come to t because s ime ime.

    -- ell, I o see it rig talking about it  me in to see it. If you know w I mean.

    -- Sold me t s like to be called just for t purpose, people s kno like if s warning you.

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    -- You see.

    -- I see.

    -- I could ter. But I dont knoer, cleaned better or cooked better or I dont knoter.

    -- You smile. And the angels sing. La la la la la la la la la la la la.

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    -- Our many moons of patience and accommodation. tricks and stunts unknoo common cunts.

    -- ts applauded. Above us, a great tent ripes.

    -- t s.

    -- I was fecund, savagely so.

    -- Painting dead e imitation of Delacroix.

    -- Sailing after luncer sailing, gin.

    -- Do not go into t into t to tack room. Gazed at by ing eyes. they knew.

    -- You packed ily reacation just before midniging the pennies in your purse.

    -- Yes. Regaining ty, plunged once more into activities.

    -- Youve got to erest, or goal.

    -- Made myself knoain areas, one, tudied to cocoa.

    -- thing you do so well.

    -- Acquired busts of certain notables, marble, silver, bronze. tary of Defense and t Chiefs.

    -- ailed a bit noo telephone.

    -- But I rallied. Rallied.

    -- Made an effort. Made t.

    -- to make soft o conceal . Comatoes imes, in to enspirit tless. to get me a jug and go out be be or noble.

    -- Sometimes I averns.

    -- Right as rain. I mean okey-dokey.

    -- Unless ticipant affirmatively elects otherwise.

    --  does t mean?

    -- Damfino. Just a bit of legal language I picked up somewhere.

    -- You are the sunshine of my life.

    -- toys toys I  more toys.

    -- Yes, I shink you would.

    -- t ainty called the love affair.

    -- t of ties in eet way for half an hour.

    -- s t?

    -- Bread in milk, have some.

    -- I t a little something.

    -- A mistletoe salad her.

    -- Stick to it, keep after it. Only o go is all the way.

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    -- ell its a clean afternoon, he azaleas.

    -- Yes titions, cups.

    -- I das just under ter.

    -- Peered into al arcade noting tissue.

    -- Backed into a small table tering of asant journals.

    --  ougo do?  do you advise me? Sry to see  will ell me?

    -- Yes its caring and being kind. e oo and blood sausage.

    -- Lasciviously offered a somete.

    -- But ily tische hands covered you up again.

    -- Muc. Every day. I dont mind doing t ts.

    -- e  it ogether. A plain dog.

    -- Did it?

    -- Na  anot ogether.

    -- Bone ignorance.

    -- Saing I ,  of cougo  collar whenever he --

    -- Coughed.

    -- Yes   collar and cougo it odd mannerism very annoying.

    -- t one by one --

    -- t candle ar -

    -- tabernacle door ajar --

    -- t of the book.

    -- I got ready for t day. t day came, several times in fact.

    -- Eacime  time.

    -- No. t in fact intrude. Maybe as a slig day is itself, s oles, and green lords. tation t ticular day  be  is meant to be. Mostly it is. ts peculiar.

    -- old me terrible t day as  side by side ing for to ing for to waser-colors from ercolor paper.

    --  do the children say?

    -- the children say.

    --  do the children say?

    -- they say: ill you always love me?

    -- Always.

    -- ill you always remember me?

    -- Always.

    -- ill you remember me a year from now?

    -- Yes, I will.

    -- ill you remember me two years from now?

    -- Yes, I will.

    -- ill you remember me five years from now?

    -- Yes, I will.

    -- Knock knock.

    -- here?

    -- You see?