-- Well I hate to be put in this position. Bending and subservient.

-- Got to get it together, get the big bucks.

-- I was out shooting with him once, pheasant, he got one, with his fancy shotgun. The bird bursting like an exploding pillow.

-- Yes thats something we do. Our damnedest. They cant take that away from us.

-- You are excellent at it. Really first-rate.

-- Yes, I will.

-- Well its a clean afternoon, heavy on the azaleas.

-- Whos the artist?

-- Born with a silver hoe in your mouth.

-- I think I could eat a little something.

-- Toys toys I want more toys.

-- Well, me too. But after all. But still.

-- My demands were not met. One, two, three, four.

-- Sometimes I have luck. In plazas or taverns.

-- Oh that clown band. Oh its sweet strains.

-- Paying lots of attention. A clear vision of what can and cant be done.

-- Control used to be the thing. Now, abandon.

-- Naw it was just another of those dumb ideas we had we thought would keep us together.

-- The fading gray velvet of the sofa. He clowned with my panties in his teeth. Walked around that way for half an hour.

-- Ill take it. You may stack it with the others, against that wall or that wall or that wall --

-- One of my finest. They roared for ten minutes.

-- I dont know just a bit of legal language I picked up somewhere.

-- Send it anywhere you like. Anywhere your little heart desires.

-- The unexploded pillow and the simple, blunt sheet.

-- Will you remember me two years from now?

-- Yeah I heard about that hes got a big mouth.

-- To make soft what is hard. To make hard the soft. To conceal what is black with use, under new paint. Check the tomatoes with their red times, in the manual. To enspirit the spiritless. To get me a jug and go out behind the barn sharing with whoever is out behind the barn, peasant or noble.

-- Yes, I should think you would.

-- That wallow in certainty called the love affair.

-- Ah, youre a fool. A damned fool.

-- Well I dont know, I havent seen it.

-- On my free evenings and paid holidays. Making the most of the time I have here on this earth. Knotting, sewing, weaving, welding.

-- Growing older and with age, less beautiful.

-- Yes, you may hang it. Anywhere you like. On that wall or that wall or that wall.

-- Want to buy a garter belt? Have one, thanks. Cut your losses, try another town, split for the tall timber.

-- Most excellent and dear friend. Who the silly seasons named for.

-- Yeah Ive noticed that. Losing your glow.

-- You smile. And the angels sing. La la la la la la la la la la la la.

-- Another wallow?

-- Sailing after lunch and after sailing, gin.

-- What does that mean?

-- For I do not deny that I am a little out of temper.

-- Well, why dont you ask her if its not an inconvenience or this isnt the wrong time or something.

-- Mine.

-- Or worse, dont fret about it, could have put your cute little butt in worse places, in thrall to dismaler personalities.

-- You see?

-- Icy day with salt on all the sidewalks.

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-- The sky. A rectangle of gray in the foreground and behind that, a rectangle of puce. And behind that, a square of silver gilt.

-- One of the best things. One of the very best.

-- Youve got to have something besides yourself. A cat, too often.

-- Did the Eminence arrive?

-- Bounding into the woods on all fours barking like a mother biting at whatever moves in front of me --

-- A mistletoe salad we whipped up together.

-- Probably I can get ahead by working hard, paying attention to detail.

-- Man down. Corner of Water and Eight Nine.

-- The hall ganged with admiring faces. Except for a few.

-- Youve got to have something besides yourself. A cause, interest, or goal.

-- She told me that she didnt like to be called just for that purpose, people she didnt know and maybe wouldnt like if she did know, Im just warning you.

-- Yes. Hes got his hooks into her. Shes struggling to get away.

-- But I rallied. Rallied.

-- Yes shes lost her glow. Gone utterly.

-- Reading a lot of books and having good ideas.

-- Will you remember me a year from now?

-- Well I mean who doesnt like frisky knees?

-- Well I dont mind if I do.

-- Let me show you this picture.

-- Will you remember me five years from now?

-- I know all about it.

-- Damfino. Just a bit of legal language I picked up somewhere.

-- Just gonna sit in the wrinkling house and wrinkle. Get older and worse.

-- Well.

-- Lasciviously offered a something pure and white.

-- Large and admirable men. Not neglecting the small and ignoble. Dealing evenhandedly with every situation on a case-by-case basis.

-- Knew a guy wore his stomach on his sleeve. I dealt with the problem using astrology in its medical aspects. His stomach this, his stomach that, God Almighty but it was tiresome, tiresome in the extreme. I dealt with it by using astrology in its medical aspects.

-- And his toes, wonderful toes, that man has got toes.

-- Its "Tancred Succored by Ermina."

-- Do not go into the red barn, he said. I went into the red barn. Julia. Swinging on a rope from hayloft to tack room. Gazed at by horses with their large, accepting eyes. They somehow looked as if they knew.

-- Theres a thing the children say.

-- Each time with memories of the last time.

-- I went far beyond the time normally allotted for a speaker. Far.

-- Its "Vulcan and Maia."

-- Much like that. Every day. I dont mind doing the work if I get the results.

-- Always worth making the effort, always.

-- Do you also save string?

-- But handsome hip bones got to give him that.

-- I see.

-- Thank you. Where shall I send the bill?

-- Yes I just feel so fresh and free here. One doesnt feel that way every day, or every week.

-- At least they know Im in town.

-- I suppose thats true. Strictly speaking.

-- Have to stand there and watch them, their keen eyes scanning the whatever. And then say "Good shot!"

-- Yes Im thinking hard, thinking hard.

-- A dozen Filipinos with trays.

-- Well, probably this is the wrong time come to九_九_藏_書 think of it because she isnt here and some time when she is here would probably be a better time.

-- Nonculminating kind of ultimately affectless activity.

-- I was preparing myself. Getting ready for the great day.

-- Backed into a small table which overturned with a scattering of ashtrays and back copies of important journals.

-- Wailed a bit now and then into the ears of friends and caverns of the telephone.

-- Our many moons of patience and accommodation. Tricks and stunts unknown to common cunts.

-- Heavens! Id not noticed. Let me raise you up.

-- I got ready for the great day. The great day came, several times in fact.

-- Coughed.

-- What? Are you sure? Are you quite sure? Let me show you this picture.

-- Had a clown at the wedding he officiated standing there in his voluptuous white costume his drum and trumpet at his feet. He said, "Do you, Harry. . ." and all that. The guests applauded, the clown band played, it was a brilliant occasion.

-- Acquired busts of certain notables, marble, silver, bronze. The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

-- Work hard and concentrate. Try Clown, Baby, Hell-hag, Witch, the Laughing Cavalier. The Lord helps those --

-- Well, would you like to see it?

-- But I love the city and will not hear it traduced.

-- Naming babies, Lou, Lew, Louis.

-- Last night at two the barking dog in the apartment above stopped barking. Its owners had returned. I went into the kitchen and barked through the roof for an hour. I believe I was understood.

-- I spent some time away and found everyone there affable, gentle, and good.

-- Its greens in a pot.

-- Its "Wolfram Looking at His Wife Whom He Has Imprisoned with the Corpse of Her Lover."

-- Well.

-- The kitchen is especially splendid.

-- Sometimes by virtue of the sun on a summers day.

-- Yes thats quite grand. What is it?

-- Yes. Regaining the city, plunged once more into activities.

-- Glitches in the system as yet unapprehended.

-- You see.

-- Close to that figure.

-- I have that too.

-- I went far beyond the time normally allotted to, or for, a speaker. It is fair to say they were enthralled. And transfixed. Inappropriate laughter at some points but I didnt mind that.

-- The clapping shut of the book.

-- Ease myself into bed of an evening brain jumping with hostile fluids.

-- Once you lose your glow you never get it back.

-- Which you mime so gracefully in auditoria large and small.

-- Ill never achieve abandon.

-- Tickling them when they want to be tickled. Abstaining, when they do not.

-- Ricchi.

-- The kind of thing you do so well.

-- To each his own. Handmade bread and individual attention.

-- In the evening by the fireside --

-- Made an effort. Made the effort.

-- Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

-- Yes its caring and being kind. We have corn dodgers too and blood sausage.

-- Well, I would like to see it right now because just talking about it has got me in the mood to see it. If you know what I mean.

-- Trying to get my colors together. Trying to ｈｔtｐs://read•9９cｓｗ.ｃｏｍplay one off against another. Trying for cancellation.

-- In Mexico City. Wearing the black jacket with the silver conchos. And trousers of fire pink.

-- Polish the doorknobs with Brasso and bring in the sea bass in its nest of seaweed.

-- But I mean you really like her dont you?

-- The last candle hidden behind the altar -

-- The tabernacle door ajar --

-- Yes hed lift his coat collar and cough into it odd mannerism very annoying.

-- Has a partiality for white. White gowns, shifts, aprons, flowers, sauces.

-- The Secretary of State cares. And the Secretary of Commerce.

-- Painting dead women by the hundreds in passionate imitation of Delacroix.

-- Spranger.

-- And yet with my really wizard! good humor and cheerful thoughtless mien, I have caused a lot of trouble.

-- Bust your ass, its the only way.

-- Purple bursts in my face as if purple staples had been stapled there every which way --

-- Goodbye, madame. Dip if you will your hand in the holy water font as you leave, and attend as well to the poor box just to the right of the door.

-- Took me by the hand and led me through all the rooms. Many rooms.

-- Bone ignorance.

-- You are the sunshine of my life.

-- Oh it is so fine. Incomparable.

-- Progress extending far into the future. Dams and aqueducts. The amazing strength of the powerful.

-- Whats that mean?

-- Featherings of ease and bliss.

-- If you need a friend Im yours till the end.

-- He does a tough Eminence.

-- Yes thats very lovely. What is it?

-- Sketching attitudes and forming pretty speeches.

-- I find you utterly delightful. Abide with me. Well have little cakes with smarm, yellow smarm on them --

-- I thought that. Once I thought that.

-- Think Julias getting it on with Bally.

-- Whirling and jigging in the red light and throwing veils on the floor and throwing gloves on the floor --

-- The guests applauded. Above us, a great tent with red and yellow stripes.

-- Blew it. Blew it.

-- I dashed a hope and dimmed an ardor. Promises shimmering like shrimp in light just under the surface of the water.

-- Thank you.

-- They say: Will you always love me?

-- I was fecund, savagely so.

-- In a cab. In his robes of scarlet.

-- Well, I dont know, I dont know her very well do you?

-- Always.

-- What do the children say?

-- Its "Portia Wounding Her Thigh."

-- And not only that. And not only that.

-- I could have done better. But I dont know how. Could have done better, cleaned better or cooked better or I dont know. Better.

-- Quite so.

-- I really admire you. I really do. To the teeth.

-- Never fail to knock myself out. Put pictures on the walls and pads under the rugs.

-- No. These do not in fact intrude. Maybe as a slight shimmer of the over-and-done-with. Each great day is itself, with its own war machines, rattles, and green lords. There is the hesitation that the particular day wont be what it is meant to be. Mostly it is. Thats peculiar.

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-- Well thats not bad. I mean its a means.

-- Well I mean who doesnt like violet eyes?

-- Yes shes sopping up the blood there, got a big rag, seems a sweet girl, God hes out of it isnt he, dead or dying horse at upper left. . . Whos the artist?

-- Will you always remember me?

-- Right as rain. I mean okey-dokey.

-- You packed hastily reaching the station just before midnight counting the pennies in your purse.

-- I love you, Harmonica, quite exceptionally.

-- Lave you with bee jelly and bone oil.

-- Decorated with rings and rubber bands.

-- The sky. A rectangle of glister. Behind which, a serene brown. A yellow bar, vertical, in the upper right.

-- Organizing our deepest wishes as a mother foresightedly visits a store that will be closed tomorrow.

-- Vigorously? Vigorously. Yes.

-- Whos there?

-- Ive wallowed for today thank you. Control is the thing.

-- Yes, Bally is a regal memory for everyone.

-- And if I have ever been able to stomach your serial triumphs --

-- Julias is the best. Best Ive ever seen. The finest.

-- As is the case with the Oni of Ife. Saw him on television.

-- Oh.

-- Yes theyre clued in. We are not unprotected. Soldiers and policemen.

-- Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. I remember.

-- As we learn from studying the careers of all the great figures of the past. Heraclitus and Launcelot du Lac.

-- He told me terrible things in the evening of that day as we sat side by side waiting for the rain to wash the water-colors from his watercolor paper. Waiting for the rain to wash the paper clean, quite clean.

-- Doing and redoing my lustrous abundant hair.

-- Got to make the effort, scratch where it itches, plans, schemes, directives, guidelines.

-- Never heard of him.

-- Did it?

-- Hurt by malicious criticisms all very well grounded.

-- But he hastily with an embarrassed schottische of the hands covered you up again.

-- Yes. Got to get going, got to make some progress.

-- Whats this gunk here in this bucket?

-- Man down. Corner of Mercer and One Six.

-- I respect your various phases. Your sweet, even discourse.

-- Man down. Center and One Eight.

-- Its confetti in the swimming pool.

-- The strains of the city working upon an essentially non-urban sensibility.

-- Yes, I will.

-- Pitching pennies at a line scraped in the dust.

-- Peered into his dental arcade noting the health of his pink tissue.

-- Unless the participant affirmatively elects otherwise.

-- By gum I think you mean it. I think you do.

-- Saw him once more, he was at a meeting I was at, had developed an annoying habit of coughing into his coat collar whenever he --

-- I was making an effort. What I do best.

-- I could have done better but I was dumb. When youre young youre sometimes dumb.

-- Made myself knowledgeable in certain areas, one, two, three, four. Studied the Value Line and dipped into cocoa.

-- Hurt by malicious criticisms all very well grounded --

-- The muscle of jealousy is not in me. Nowhere.

-- Well, I know her well enough to ask her.

-- I admread.99csw.comire your dash and address. But regret your fear and prudence.

-- Yes they pride themselves on their azaleas. Have competitions, cups.

-- Figs and kiss-me-nots. I would meet you upon this honestly.

-- He told me terrible things in the evening of that day as we sat side by side waiting for the rain to wash his water-color paper clean. Waiting for the rain to wash the water-colors from his watercolor paper.

-- My best ghost. The one I think about, in bitter times and good.

-- I performed in a hall. Alone under the burning lights.

-- Washing and rewashing my lustrous, abundant hair.

-- Maybe in a few days. A few days or a few years.

-- Some think one thing, some another.

-- Bread in milk, have some.

-- Blood vessels bursting in my face just under the skin all the while.

-- We had a dog because we thought it would keep us together. A plain dog.

-- Do something wonderful. I dont know what.

-- Tied flares to my extremities and wound candy canes into my lustrous, abundant hair. Getting ready for the great day.

-- Oh well, yes. I agree. Quite right. Absolutely.

-- Oh that clown band. Oh its sweet strains.

-- Always.

-- Then the candles going out one by one --

-- Its staggers under the moon.

-- Now that I take a long look at you --

-- Yes, I will.

-- What do the children say?

-- Yes very tough. I was allowed to kiss the ring. He sat there, in the audience, just like another member of the audience. Just like anybody. Transfixed and enthralled.

-- Trays with edibles. Wearables. Readables. Collectibles.

-- I have Goldwasser, Bombay gin and Old Jeb.

-- Visited a health club there, my rear looked like two pocketbooks, they worked on it.

-- Followed by development of head banging in the child.

-- Julia was there. Rotten Julia.

-- Your gracious and infinitely accommodating presence.

-- I remember, I can feel them still, pressing into me as they once did on hot afternoons and cool nights and feverish first-thing-in-the-mornings.

-- Well I wouldnt mind a Scotch myself.

-- The very damn best believe me.

-- Knock knock.

-- Its U-joints in the vichyssoise.

-- Stick to it, keep after it. Only way to go is all the way.

-- I am so proud of you. Again and again. Proud of you.

-- Wrinkling you so that you look like a roast turkey.

-- Run in the mornings too, take green tea at noon, study household management, finance, repair of devices.

-- Oh I could have done better, better, I was lax.

-- He was a salty dog all right. Salty dog.

-- Never heard of him.

-- That cracks them up does it?

-- When I was a little girl I made mud pies, dangled strings down crayfish holes hoping the idiot crayfish would catch hold and allow themselves to be hauled into the light. Snarled and cried, ate ice cream and sang "How High the Moon." Popped the wings off crickets and floated stray Scrabble pieces in ditch water. All perfect and ordinary and perfect.

-- Like a bass player plucking the great thick strings of his instrument with powerful plucks.

-- You were making an effort.

-- Friendships the best thing.

-- Frolic and detour.