Mack
when he was feeling his oats he began
colouring outside the linesoutside his perimeter which was rarely sketchy which was usually a bulwark
anbouncing around in this brightblue Elysium
he thought himself clever
inevitably as he had so many times before right from the script
hed say to him Oh I get it
Hows that working out for you
Mack would say What?
hed say Being clever
So while I was indulging in Mickey
Spillane tantalised by the lurid covers hawkeyeing
my dad as he read em until he finishedset em aside when he was done he wouldnt go back em so I took em
he probably assumed my maw got
rid of em like she got rid of our toys You haven’t played with that toy in months. But it was in my toybox You hadn’t played with it in months; I gave it
away. Are you kiddin me I wouldn’t kid you.
So while Im reading pulp fiction finding hardboiled
novels Hammett Chandler Hemingway Cain Himes Highsmith anything I could lay my
hands on what were you reading
Mad magazine. Comicbooks.
Comicbooks Really
Yamean like Richie
Rich a dig he missed Archie Betty and Veronica Jughea . .
.
. Hold on, correction, correction, Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge.
Which was which
Are you kidding me?
Man I hope yare kidding me
Macks face screwed up unpleasantly
I liked Veronica; she was dark, better built.
Shes a cartoon character
Yeah, so, I also read muscle car
magazines.
Say no moreI mean it Say
no more
Obviously
our differences are more than me raised in the Midwest an you in California so much more
Elysium had Mack by the balls
he could see mercurial
cleverness working hardpeeking at him from out behind his eyes Funhouse quicksilver rising
wondering when it might break he tippytoedhoping
to keep it in check AHha the best laid
plans of mice and men he slippedno
sooner than it was out of his mouth he knew whawas next
they
had been talking again of hardboiled writers novels their nihilism unforgiveness
never give a sucker an even break
he said Prior to reading Hammett I hadnt conceived of
a character slipping another a Mickey
You mean a Spillane? Right? verily he gloated Get
it?
Oh I get it
Clever Hows that working out for
you
1550, Day-between-Two-Ts, 24 11.
21
1255, Twosday,
30 11. 21
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