GOODLOOKING BOY wasn’t he / yes/ blond /
yes / I do vaguely
/ you never liked
him / bit of a
rebel / so you
said / he’s the
one wore lizard
pants and
pearls to graduation / which at the time you admired /
they were good pearls /
you said he reminded you
of
your friend Mildred / Mildred taught me everything I
know she taught me how
to entertain / you must
miss
her / I miss her martinis [stubs cigarette] so what’s he
up to now / just got out of
the army / wounded /
messed up / are they giving him care / a guy shows
up with a padded envelope
of drugs every night I
guess
it’s care / he staying with you / for a while / behaving
himself / some days he sits
around reading Christina
Rossetti some days he comes out of the bathroom
covered in camouflage
paint / keep him away
from
your herd / did I tell you I finished Proust / oh yes /
seven years / can you
reach me
those matches behind you / reading it every day /
thanks / was like having
an extra unconscious /
well I’m
not fond of those multivolume things / there’s the
part where he’s comparing
his Tante Léonie to a
waterlily /
she’s a swimmer / no she’s a neurasthenic / I don’t get
it / well she’s old nervous
lives in a single room
trapped in her little
train of habits the pills the pains the spying out the
window / hmmm / a
waterlily caught in a
current he
says / could be too late for me to appreciate Proust on
the other hand I’m at a loss
I’ve read all the Len
Deightons in the library / hundreds of people visit his
home every year some just
burst into tears / Len
Deighton / no Proust / say remember that time we
were driving and crashed /
what time / I forget where
it was I
was driving no you were driving I was looking out
the window all of a
sudden I thought I saw a
deer racing
out a driveway so I start to just then my brain flashes
on it being a wooden lawn
ornament not a real one
WATCH OUT FOR THAT WOODEN DEER I
yelled so loud you drove
off the road into a guy’s
hedge and
burst into tears [she laughs he laughs] / speaking of
tears / listen [gets out a
cigarette] to that wind /
storm coming / or is it the
traffic / wind I think /
from the north sounds like
/ so your surgery is
scheduled
for when / the 25th / you want me to come with you /
no dear / well if you
change your mind / I
won’t
change my mind / I can easily / thanks though / well
/ [glances down at her
crossword] I’ll be fine /
well so / time for you to
go / I’ll call on the
weekend / take some of
those apples they’re the
kind you like
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