he had just sat downstretched outfire
in the fireplace a whisky in hand admiring the caramelhoney colouredfacets flicker in the crystal tumbler like a
lizards tongue Christ whahe would do
with a tongue like thatwith a mammalian brain a mammalian brain not a reptilian
entrylevel basemodel writhingcircuitry eat or be eatenOhshit hed eat anbet
his fuckin life hed eat s l o
w l y
the telephone rang
if anyone wanted to reach him at
night theyd have to call his home number
few had his cell
aneven fewer reached it
because it wasnt On he likened it to the
phone booth that he an Superman shared
an on occasion he
made the Man of Steel bend
Sorry
Clark cantya see Im talkin here Pretend were at the gym Get naked I aint watchin I have no latent
homosexual tendencies Yaint got titsno pussy Yaint no attraction for me
Ouch
Supermans
feelings were hurt he wasafter all the
Man of Steel
Nah Truly fiercely blindly heterosexual
half the time he shared it with him he worried that Clark wasnt coming
out of a telephone booth rather a
closet
he didnt have Caller ID
theyd say who they were or hangup
even if he knew who they were was
no guarantee hed pickup
a nice fire a crystal tumbler of
Irishscratching his balls is hard to overcome
Hey . . .
Hey, I’m in town . . a couple of
days . . .
I’m in town an I thought it’d be
nice to see you.
he pickedup
For wha
OH. Hi.
For wha
You haven’t a hello for me?
You didnt have a goodbye for me
Ouch.
Nahstop that didnt hurt I was thoroughly disappointed
But yanever
cease to surprise me
I didn’t know how to say goo .
.
. . Easy Goodbye
Fuckin children
say goodbye when they leave Yatellin me
a kids got something on you
I . .
. . A kid
You're not being pleasant.
You didnt say sound at all
Yare in town
Yes. I am.
Your dime
I’m in town.
And
I thought maybe we could have
dinner. A drink. A drink, drinks . . and
dinner.
Onya Yah
I thought it’d be nice to see
you.
Might not be a good idea
You don’t want to se . .
.
. I didnt say that I said it might not
be a good idea
Okay. Do you want to see me?
Well see Where you at
Staying at Sycamore.
Sycamore
Really pluckin heartstrings
Am I?
Like I aint got a heart
Talking the way you are I’m not
sure.
Talking
Yawanna tell me the last time we
talked Ya remember
I do
No. I don’t remember.
Thats good to know Mebbe yawanna think
Ill ask at the desk an call ya
Okay.
Tomorrow Seven
Not tonight?
I ate I got a drink
Oh.
Save the pain in your voice Save it for tomorrowpossibly he was
running a scenario in his headhed wear
a belt tomorrow or maybe hed blow her
off
It had been years
So you’ll come to the hotel? Tomorrow?
Im thinkin on it
I mean
drinks and dinner on you Mebbe whaelse
Ill exact
Extract?
Exact Ill take not extract
I . .
Tomorrow Ill call Night
he
hungup he was feeling like Bogart in
Casablanca
Poor po stupid Rick
if he went it wasnt going to be romantic
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