Aw for Christssake, I didn’t see
that coming.
he saidhe guaranteed those would
be his last words
Aw for Christssake, I didn’t see
that coming.
Arya practising so theyre
rote Automatic
No. Maybe.
Well.
Well no matter, they’ll be my last
words, and you’ll be able to attest to them.
Me
You.
I know you’ll be with me at my death.
Your death How do ya know tha
Because . . I guarantee I’ll know
and I’ll callsend for you . and you’ll come.
Sound mighty cocksur . .
.
. You’ll come.
Another guarantee
No man. You love me and when I’m
dying you’ll go through heaven and hell to be with me as I would for you. But
that ain’t gonna happen.
Guaranteed
Guaranteed.
he was visiting his folks a nice
afternoon went for a walk with a book walked and read where he lived he was
known as He who walks books if he were
First People he would have taken the name
he heard his
name yelled
turning around
his kidbrother the youngest was
flying up the street on his bicycleveered onto the sidewalk GOT TO COME HOME! YOU GOT TO COME HOME! MOM
SAYS!
he brakedstopped
She say why
She said you gotta come home now.
Okay turnbout letem know Im comin
Right.
boy was mighty proud he found him he had fallen off a swing landed on his head
hadnt been quite right since but was plenty right for the family word was out not to fuck with him they were awfully
protective boy felt it he was protective right back
pretty fucking sweet
he found him
he came into his bedroom the door was wideopen
he wasnt . . dying in no fuckin' hospital. I ain’t
stretching this thing out.
This thing Your life
I’ve had a good one. I’ll be
damned if I’m strapping my family exiting. I wasn’t expensive coming in.
when he arrived he was asleep his wife was a mess they were schoolhood friends she wanted out of her house and to settle
down
she wanted him to settle down
with her
he was honest perhaps callus I don want to settle
I do.
she did with Ray
Ray and he were best friendswent
back to the Cubs Scouts when his family moved into the community the
neighbourhood kids everywhere mothers
everywhere with eyes in the back of their heads minimum five kids in each
house loads and loads of kids
she and Ray stayed put moved but not ten miles from of the old neighbourhood
when he visited his folks he and
Ray would tie-up
Sandy hadnt forgiven
him he saw her sparingly
this would be the most hed seen her
I think he could beat this. she
said Doctors say . .
.
. The odds Wha odds they give him Rays nobodys fool
Shitty odds.
Nobodys fool Sandy Rays decision
Only thing we truly own
in this life is our lives
I thought you’d come and convince
him to try.
He listens to you.
AwSandy I apologise
Its not my place chuckling
under his breath Guarantees have been made Given
crestfallen Ray.
Ray
Aw for Christssake, I didn’t see
that coming.
Ray was on his back uncovered skinanbones
then he folded out of himself
onto his face onto his back was shouldertoshoulder with him Wha
the fuck that iteration blueing graying folded out of himself onto his face onto his
back was shouldertoshoulder with him
three Rays
the third was greennot rotting green no looked sagelike fucking eternal his soul
they laid side by side by side on the Kingsize
bed
he and Sandy were standing at the beds edgeSandy
staggeredcaught herguided her onto a dressing chair turned back to Ray and as he
did he said Aw for Christssake, I didn’t see that coming. Ray guaranteed those would be his last words
Anya fucked that up for me.
he smiled the biggest mostpleased
mostbeautiful smile hed ever seen on Rays face not even when he lost his longmalingering
cherry did he smile that beauteous
closing his eyes he took a bright
clear untroubled breath
then Ray sighed a long sweet birdcall
before 0900, 2sday,
9 1. 24
111preferred, 2sday
