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By Jack Joseph Smith
it's because they are sad because their children really
won't get to play with Jesus."
"I've been a junkie Al. I've been this and that! Right?"
"We're going to somebody who's freaking. She'll be sent
away. To the hospital if the local nurse has more money--
than the family," I mean that furgitively. Is there a
mother who will come and get her. She's strung out down
there. I see her. I'll be damned. The crowd is an
audience for a change. Cleaver the patience is. She's
got it. Look at the crowd the way it moves in silence."
Armenian Al made the
gesture of going to sweep his hand and arm all the way
around without doing it.
"They are rubble! Excuse me," she said; "It is rubble.
Maybe?"
Animal was embracing Maria. She was the light of his
possible days. Jaqueline was with her. There would be a
highlight, and the night would finish in splendor.
"She is beginning to early and to late to talk to the
people make," said Animal winking and starting to
go to his toes.
"Cement is marble in Rome," said Al purposely lift-
ing the last of his lip to maybe brass tarnished way back
in his mouth.
"Maybe she is attempting to be honest for us to have
to fill this night fellows..." said Jaqueline.