-- Say youre frightened. Admit it.
-- In Colorado, by the mountains. In California, by the sea. Everywhere, by breaking glass.
-- Say youre frightened. fess.
-- Timid as a stag. Theyve got a meter wired to my sheet, I dont know what it measures. I get a dollar a night. When I wake suddenly, I notice its there. I watch my hand aging, sing a little song.
-- Were you io the party?
-- Yes, I was. Stood there smiling. I thought, Those are tight pants, how kind of her. Wondered if she was e underh. What shall we do? Call up Mowgli? Ask him over? Do you like tongue? Sliced? With mushrooms? Is it a private matter? Is Scriabin as smart as he looks? This mans a fool -- why are you talking to him? Yes, his clothes are iing, but inside are dull bones. -- This gray light, I dont see how you stand it. -- A firestorm of porn all around -- e images, dunes as. Bursts of quarreling through the walls. I wonder who the people are? I tried that Cuisine Minceur, didnt like it. Oh, it looks pretty --
-- Say youre frightened.
-- Im frightened. By flutes and flirls and sirens. We get a lot of sirens because of the hospital. By coffee, dead hanging plants, people who think too fast, vestments and bells.
-- Get some Vitamin E. I take eight hundred units.
-- The sound of glass breaking. I thought, Oh Christ, not again. The last time they got a bicycle, fancy Japanese bicycle somebodyd left in the hall. We ged the lock. Guy left his crowbar. Actually it wasnt a crowbar it was a jack handle.
-- Im not afraid of crime, theres got to be crime, its the manner or mode that -- I mean if they could just take it out of your bank at, by pung a few buttons or something. . .
-- Im not afraid of shere was a snake-handling bunch where we spent the summers. I used to go to their meetings now and again, do a little handling.
-- Not afraid of the mail, not so much as I used to be, all those threateniers, I just say sticks and stones, sticks and stones, see the triage nurse.
-- Its only when you stop to think about it. I dont stop.
-- Not afraid of hurries because we used to have them, where I lived, not afraid of tarantulas, used to have them too, they jump, have to chop them up with a hoe, long-handled hoe as opposed to the stoop hoe, by preference.
-- Nature in general not seen as antipathetior are other people, except for those who want to slap your ears back without first presenting their carefully reasoned, red-white-and-blue threats.
-- Behavior in general a wonderful sea, in which we swim, or leap, or stumble.
-- She got out of bed and, doing a cute little walk, walked to the bathroom. I dreaded the day I would see her real walk.
-- Theres the su gun. That means we loosen up a friendly. Think we get any of that gover money?
-- I sent for the forms. Merrily merrily merrily merrily.
-- Think we get us some of that good per diem?
-- If you decide to run for it a bus is better. No ones seated fag you. Theyve got bigger windows now, and the drivers are usually reliable.
-- Well thats ohing I want to stay away from. Flight, I mean. Too much like defeat.
-- But when I get to all these strange places they seem empty. Nobody oreets and Im not used to that. Their restaurants all have the same things: filet, surf n turf, prime rib. Spend a few days in a hotel and then check out, leaving a dollar or two for the maids.
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