they were talking about high
school
their respective schools because they
were raised in different states
stands to reason that education their cultures
would have been modestly different
albeit contemporaries
had smoked a bit
of weed
conceded they were like Sagan
or possibly sages
Did they have talent shows at your
school
We had something in kind. Was
called Mock Rock. Kids picked a band, a song, dressed up, lipsynched.
Really
What do you mean really?
Ill give you a talent woud be necessary But Im referring to a talent show where contestants sang dance performed magic played an instrument performed a dramatic soliloquy
Soliloquy?
Yah Yah
But thinkin now whawas never performedat least during the four
years I was there . .
.
. Fours years?
he looked at himlooked
at him asif he had two heads
Four years
Ours was three.
he looked at him asif he had two
heads
Three
Yeah. Three years high school,
three middle school.
muffled
his laughter I was high all four years
I did not know
tha
Nor did I about you.
Yathink we woud have
Wonders will never cease.
Yet again another good reason to get high
Yeah.
You remember wha we were talkin about
nodded No.
I didnt think so
Talent shows
Ohyeah.
I remember.
You remember Anyway
The one act tha wasnt performed while I
was there
Yagonnasay?
A dramatic pause to draw
you in
Got my attention.
Standup comedy
Nobody ever wrote an delivered a bit
Tha woudave been the shit
Dammit
Why dammit?
Trepverter
Now tha Im thinkin about it
I woudave pitched my own Lenny Bruce
Who?
During the Fifties Comedian
He was arrested numerous times for obscenity
No. Nope.
The administration would have hooked ya
pulled ya.
But
not until Id gotten fourfive six rapidfire
blue jokes out
They would have vetted your script.
They woud have vetted a script
Ohman.
Fuck
wasnt thinking
Opportunity
squandered
Anyway
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